[Solved] Animated Toggle Buttons Not Animating

[Thee Forsaken One]

I usually prefer searching through the forums rather than creating a new topic but couldn't really find particularly useful information (either not relevant or very out-of-date).

I've got some toggles that when clicked are supposed to play a small animation where the button slides from one position to another (It's based a lot on the toggle switches commonly found on a mobile interface). The issue is that animation only ever plays once on a reload and never again. When clicked the button immediately jumps to the last frame of the animation.

This is the code for setting up the animations:

init:
image toggleLeft:
"gui/toggle/toggle5.png"
pause 0.125
"gui/toggle/toggle4.png"
pause 0.125
"gui/toggle/toggle3.png"
pause 0.125
"gui/toggle/toggle2.png"
pause 0.125
"gui/toggle/toggle1.png"
pause 0.125
"gui/toggle/togglel.png"

image toggleRight:
"gui/toggle/toggle1.png"
pause 0.125
"gui/toggle/toggle2.png"
pause 0.125
"gui/toggle/toggle3.png"
pause 0.125
"gui/toggle/toggle4.png"
pause 0.125
"gui/toggle/toggle5.png"
pause 0.125
"gui/toggle/toggler.png"

This is the button in question:

imagebutton idle "toggleLeft" selected_idle "toggleRight" hover "toggleLeft" selected_hover "toggleRight" action Preference("auto-forward", "toggle")

The animation does work if I add a repeat command to the end but naturally that ends up looking a bit silly and it's not what I'm looking for. I just want the animation to play once but evidently Ren'Py takes that as only once ever and never allows it to be repeated again. I suspect I've either made a mistake in setting up the animation or imagebutton is not the appropriate type of button to use. Unfortunately, not sure where to proceed from here. I've tried different variations but have not met with success so far.

I'd really welcome any suggestions to resolve the issue.

[gas]

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[Thee Forsaken One]

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Thanks. That's gotten me pretty close to what I was looking for.