loop though only once then stop

[game2d]

i have a enemy and spriteanimation classes. in Enemy class i have bufferedimage array with 4 different images. than i am creating a animation and storing in 'animationEnemyHit' variable. than i am starting and updateing the animation in method. the problem is that it keeps on loop for ever. i want it stop after one full cirlce. so after 4th image stop.

   public class Enemy{
       private BufferedImage[] bEnemyhit = {SpriteSheet.getSprite(6, 0),         SpriteSheet.getSprite(7, 0), 
                                         SpriteSheet.getSprite(8, 0),     SpriteSheet.getSprite(9, 0),};
 
    private SpriteAnimation aEnemyHit = new SpriteAnimation(bEnemyhit, 10, false);     //set loop vairable in spriteAnimation.class to false
    private SpriteAnimation animationEnemyHit = aEnemyHit;
    private boolean flag = false;
    ...
    public void enemyMove()    //this method is in main game loop
    {
        x -= dx;
        if(!flag){            //start only onces
            this.animationEnemyHit.start();
            flag = true;
        }
        this.animationEnemyHit.update();
 
    } 
    ...
     }

SpriteAnimation.class i am setting 'loop' vairable to true or false(value coming from enemy.class). if its false than it should not loop for ever so stop after one circle. in update method i did set up a if statment but it is not working. it just keep on looping.

    public class SpriteAnimation {
 
    private int frameCount;                 // Counts ticks for change
    private int frameDelay;                 // frame delay 1-12 (You will have to play around with this)
    private int currentFrame;               // animations current frame
    private int animationDirection;         // animation direction (i.e counting forward or backward)
    private int totalFrames;                // total amount of frames for your animation
 
    private boolean stopped;                // has animations stopped
 
    private boolean loop;                  //loop for ever or loop onces
 
    private List<SpriteFrame> SpriteframeObject = new ArrayList<SpriteFrame>();    // Arraylist of frames 
 
    public SpriteAnimation(BufferedImage[] frames, int frameDelay, boolean shouldLoop) {
        this.frameDelay = frameDelay;
        this.stopped = true;
        this.loop = shouldLoop;   //see if it has to loop or no
 
        for (int i = 0; i < frames.length; i++) {
            addFrame(frames[i], frameDelay);
        }
 
        this.frameCount = 0;
        this.frameDelay = frameDelay;
        this.currentFrame = 0;
        this.animationDirection = 1;
        this.totalFrames = this.SpriteframeObject.size();
    }
 
 
 
 
    public void start() {
        if (!stopped) {
            return;
        }
 
        if (SpriteframeObject.size() == 0) {
            return;
        }
        stopped = false;
    }
 
    public void stop() {
        if (SpriteframeObject.size() == 0) {
            return;
        }
        stopped = true;
    }
 
    public void restart() {
        if (SpriteframeObject.size() == 0) {
            return;
        }
        stopped = false;
        currentFrame = 0;
    }
 
    public void reset() {
        this.stopped = true;
        this.frameCount = 0;
        this.currentFrame = 0;
    }
 
    private void addFrame(BufferedImage frame, int duration) {
        if (duration <= 0) {
            System.err.println("Invalid duration: " + duration);
            throw new RuntimeException("Invalid duration: " + duration);
        }
 
        SpriteframeObject.add(new SpriteFrame(frame, duration));
        currentFrame = 0;
    }
 
    public BufferedImage getSprite() {
        return SpriteframeObject.get(currentFrame).getFrame();
    }
 
    public void update() {
        if (!stopped) {
            frameCount++;
 
            if (frameCount > frameDelay) {
                frameCount = 0;
                currentFrame += animationDirection;
 
                if (currentFrame > totalFrames - 1) {
                    currentFrame = 0;
 
                   //if not looping for ever than stop
 
                    if(!loop) 
                    {
                        stopped = true;
                    }
                }
 
                else if (currentFrame < 0) {
                    currentFrame = totalFrames - 1;
                     if(!loop)
                       { 
                           stopped = true;
                        }
                }
            }
 
        }
 
    }
    }

right now what is happing is that it only prints 1st image than stops. i want to do one full ciyle than stop. any ideas?

[Nepomuk]

Hi!
Looking at your code, there's one mayor problem I can see: It's missing the actual loop method. Now, from what I understand the update() method in SpriteAnimation does stuff every 10th time it's called (because frameDelay is set to 10 when a SpriteAnimation object is created in the Enemy object) and it is called from the enemyMove() method in the Enemy class. So, I'm guessing the latter method is called in a loop of some kind?