How to remove an animated element when animation completes?

[Soul Reaver]

I've created an animated image:

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image c_slash1:
    "images/combat/slash1f1.png"
    pause 0.2
    "images/combat/slash1f2.png"
    pause 0.2
    "images/combat/slash1f3.png"
    pause 0.2
    "images/combat/slash1f4.png"
    pause 0.2
    "images/combat/slash1f5.png"
    pause 0.2
    "images/combat/slash1f6.png"
    pause 0.2

This works just fine when I show it in-game.

However, lets say I use the above animated image in an imagebutton - what could I do to make that imagebutton hide/disappear completely once the animation completes (ie, to make it a 'one-off' animation)?

[Imperf3kt]

You need to use a transform for that.
Place the on show statement inside a screen and edit accordingly
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/atl.html?#on-statement

[Soul Reaver]

Thank you, but I don't understand how 'on' can be used to detect when an animation has finished? Could you please show some sample code that achieves that?

EDIT: As far as I can see, the above would only let me visually hide the image/imagebutton by making it transparent, it wouldn't actually remove the element itself from the screen.

Ideally I'd like to do something sort of like this:

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image c_slash1:
    "images/combat/slash1f1.png"
    pause 0.1
    "images/combat/slash1f2.png"
    pause 0.1
    "images/combat/slash1f3.png"
    pause 0.1
    "images/combat/slash1f4.png"
    pause 0.1
    "images/combat/slash1f5.png"
    pause 0.1
    "images/combat/slash1f6.png"
    pause 0.1
    event animationend

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show c_slash1:
	on animationend hide c_slash1

But obviously that doesn't work because 'event' can only be used inside the ATL block and not detected in the main code.
So I still don't know how to remove the actual c_slash1 element when the animation has ended.

But I'm quite inexperienced so far, so maybe I'm missing something?

[Kia]

you can use a timer to hide the screen or change a variable after a specific delay
you have 6 pause of 0.1
timer 0.6 action Hide("something")
it's not the perfect solution but it's better than nothing

[Soul Reaver]

Ok. I'll design something like built-in countdown for the various buttons/images.

[Imperf3kt]

Rethinking this, you can use the notify screen as a stock screen and modify as necessary.
I just remembered I did this in a project to display an "achievement unlocked" animation when necessary.
I'll find the code and paste it here soon (TM)