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Animated GIF--Loop Just Once?
I created an animated GIF in Adobe Fireworks. It's a gauge with a needle that moves from the 6 o'clock position to the 12 o'clock position, using 16 frames ('states' in Fireworks parlance). I set t...
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Thanks for taking a look at this. Yes, there is a mechanism in Fireworks for setting the number of loops in an animation. This screenshot shows the Fireworks States panel for my 18-state animation; the Looping drop down menu is set for 'No Looping'. With this setting, the animated GIF that I export from Fireworks will play all 18 'states' once and then stop at the last state.
It appears that Storyline is NOT recognizing the looping setting in the animated GIF file. My Web browser runs the animated GIF properly (one cycle of the animation) but Storyline Web output does not (endless cycles of the animation).
The workaround you mocked up does indeed yield the result I'm seeking, though it's a bit of struggle to set the timing just right so that the animation goes off-screen at exactly the right time--not too soon, not so late that it begins to loop again. This is the workaround I tried before asking the question here in the forum. Great minds think alike! 
Might be helpful to find out for sure whether Storyline recognizes the looping setting in an animated GIF so that others will know (or as a feature request for the next Storyline update). Either way, I'll live with this workaround on my current project.
Thanks again for researching.
