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I need help!

I'm trying to have a video looping without stop(so that's the neutral state), and then when a sensor(a bang) is "activated" i want another video to start. when the new video has run once, i want to return to the first video that's looping(the neutral state).

I have gotten the second video to start playing instead of the neutral one when a bang has been sent, but i can't get it to return to the neutral state. (the toggle won't turn off automatically, the new video just loops and loops).

It's quite hard to explain but really thankful for any help.

Here's what i've got going so far: http://postimg.org/image/3vmnp405n/

Cheers!

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After a bit of reorganizing, your patch looks like this (copy the block of gibberish below and then in max, click menu->file->new from clipboard. this is how max code is passed around):

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-----------end_max5_patcher-----------

Much easier to see what's going on right? Some fiddling got me to this:

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-----------end_max5_patcher-----------

Please use this way to show your code. People won't look at it if they have to recreate your patch by hand.

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