2D Getting animation state..

Hi,

How are you supposed to react to the state of an animation. I want to do someting as soon as the animation gets to the 'down' state. If I make a while loop checking it, it just dies. I want to do something as soon as I reach a state.

Code below.. jcont.SState() gets the current state of the animation and returns "complete" if its at the 'down' state. it works if i remove the loop and run jcount.SState() by clicking a button over and over.

 string returnState = "";
 
 while (retState != "complete") {
 
     returnState = jcont.SState(); 
 
 
 }