Problem with switching b/w animations w/ buttons

[Patrix]

Hello. First let me start off by describing what I am doing.

In my program, I have two buttons: A button labelled next and a button labelled previous.
3 animations are used:
I'll refer to them as 1, 2, and 3. All of them have the loop option clicked.

Here's what I have my program doing (or want it to do).
Animation 1 is playing and the user clicks on the next button, Animation 2 plays.
Animation 2 is playing, presses next, Animation 3 plays.
Animation 3 is playing and the user clicks on the next button, the animation switches to Animation 1.
Animation 1 is playing and the user clicks on the previous button, Animation 3 plays.
Animation 3 is playing and the user clicks on the previous button, Animation 2 plays.
Animation 2 is playing and the user clicks on the previous button, Animation 1 plays.

Now here's what's happening here:
Starting off with Animation 1, when I click next, it just stays at Animation 1.
When I press previous though, it changes to Animation 2.
Clicking previous again takes me back to Animation 1.
Also when I pressed next while Animation 2 is playing, it also takes me to Animation 1.

So I'm stuck with this dillemma of trying to have the program switch between animations with the use of buttons and it's just not working properly, but I need it to work for the project I'm working on.

My apologies for the post for being long, but I felt that I should be detailed as possible and give the basic idea of what I'm doing.
If anyone could give me advice to fix this problem, I'd greatly appreciate it. Or if there is anything that would produce the same effect also, that would great as well. Thanks in advance.

[ZayLong]

try run loop one time.

[mobichan]

It might be helpful to post your file so we can take a look.

But here is a method I use and it works for me:

Set up your buttons so that "Next" adds 1 to a global alterable variable (let's call it "ButtonState") and "Previous" subtracts 1 from that same alterable variable (ButtonState). Now set up some conditions:
-ButtonState = 0
-->Change Animation to "Anim1" (or whatever your first animation is called)
-ButtonState = 1
-->Change Animation to "Anim2"
-ButtonState = 2
-->Change Animation to "Anim3"

You will also need to add the following for your "wrap around" functionality:
-ButtonState < 0
-->Set ButtonState to 2
-ButtonState > 2
-->Set ButtonState to 0

You might need to add the following to the "Change Animation" actions if the animations don't reset themselves (sorry, I haven't tested this):

-->Force Animation Frame
-->Restore Animation Frame to 0

Hope that helps,

Mobichan

[Patrix]

Thanks mobichan! Your suggestion worked perfectly! I just got it working.

try run loop one time

I tried that before with a couple of other options, but that didn't seem to work. Although I have used it before for other things though.

[mobichan]

Glad I could help. ^_^

Mobichan