# A simple delay question

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**Created:** [September 2, 2007, 6:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-simple-delay-question/237676 "2007-09-02T06:51:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Avihai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@Avihai](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Avihai)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2007, 6:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-simple-delay-question/237676/1 "2007-09-02T06:51:30Z")

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Hi all,

I have three movie clips on the stage that I want to animate their alpha by using:  
mc01.tween("\_alpha",100,15,0,0);  
mc02.tween("\_alpha",100,15,0,0);  
mc03.tween("\_alpha",100,15,0,0);

Everything works well.

My question is how can I create a delay for each one: i.e mc01 appears and after 3 seconds disappears while mc02 appears, waiting for another 3 seconds and disappears while mc03 appears ans so on and so forth - all in one frame.

Thanks,  
A.O