Is it possible to get a movie clip to stay on its last frame?

On the last frame of the movieclip you could assign a stop(); action. This is the easiest way to do it. Are you looking for something that will programmatically implement this on a movieclip ?

If you need to do this programmatically, here is a little block of code that will apply this functionality to a movieclip with an instance name of "mcTest"

mcTest.onEnterFrame = function(){
      if(mcTest._currentframe == mcTest._totalframes){
            mcTest.stop();
      }
}

I tried a stop action but it seems to ignore it. It's as if it reloads the movie clip whenever it goes back to frame where the movie clip sits. I need the clip to disappear.

The above had no effect.

This worked for me.

In the movie clip, add a layer and call it something like "actions". On the last frame of the clip, add a keyframe in the "actions" layer. Put some action script in this frame which is basically a flag saying that we got here. Like this:

_root.got_here="yes";
stop();

In the first frame of the actions layer add a keyframe and in this keyframe enter this code:

if (_root.got_here =="yes"){
  gotoAndPlay(lastframe);
}


*make sure you define the lastframe (as [clipName]._totalframes) or hard code it.

set the clip to start on frame 2 (so there is no noticable jump)

Then once the clip plays once, next time it will jump to the last frame and stop.

I'd be willing to bet that, since actions are not working properly that your "moveclip" is not in fact a movieclip. From the main timeline, click on the item & view it's properties. It may in fact be getting treated as a graphic. You can change the behaviour by changing this to a movieclip, then the actions will work just fine. You can also do this by selecting your graphic and (using F8) converting this symbol to a movieclip. Let me know if this helps.

From your original description, I think i'd agree with AgentSmith, it seems you've created multiple "animations" on your main timeline.

i'd suggest posting ur fla somewhere so we can have a look at what it is u're doing.
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You rock, Savong. As usual, it's something simple.