Pausing a Flash movie with actionscript 2

Quite often you don’t want to drag your time line out say 60 seconds just to add a delay to your animation or event.

There are many different ways to delay you flash movie from playing but the one that i have included below is one of the most simplest. Using the timer below you can set your time line to pause/stop (or delay) for a set period of time.

function freezeTime(howLong:Number);void{
stop();
var t:Timer = new Timer(howLong, 1);
t.addEventListener(
TimerEvent.TIMER,
function(evt:TimerEvent);void{
play();
}
}
t.start('4000');
};

Tags: actionscript, flash

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