# Actionscript for pause/time-delay?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [June 2, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283 "2003-06-02T05:32:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![javadi82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@javadi82](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/javadi82)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283/1 "2003-06-02T05:32:44Z")

</div>

(Flash 5/Flash MX)

How do I delay/pause using actionscript?

I have tried using a for loop for a time delay like this:

for(i=0;i\<1000000;i++){  
}

BUT IT DOES NOT WORK!

Flash gives an error like: Time-consuming actionscript. Abort running script? OR the loop simply does not produce a noticeable delay.

Could you please show me how I can introduce a time-delay or a pause using actionscript?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283/2 "2003-06-02T05:45:15Z")

</div>

run a search in the forums, javadi82. there a several threads about this. :-\

see this: [http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action\_scripts/actionscript\_dictionary/actionscript\_dictionary646.html](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary646.html)  
and here’s a quick example:

```auto
// stop movie
stop();
// play movie after 10 seconds
var myInterval = setInterval(function(){play(),clearInterval(myInterval)}, 10000);

```

😉

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283/3 "2003-06-02T06:15:41Z")

</div>

could u give the urls to those posts here?

i have tried typing time-delay and pause in the upper right hand corner but that does not help.

thanks anyway.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283/4 "2003-06-02T06:21:33Z")

</div>

1. The link in Kaxs thread (disguised as the word “setInteval”, you really need to stop doing that kax, it gets confusing 😛 ) is pretty much all you need.

2. Your using the wrong search field. In the upper left corner there is a button that looks like this…

![](http://www.kirupaforum.com/images/search_top.gif)

Click on the button (the one in the corner, not the one in my post) to use the forum search feature.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283/5 "2003-06-02T06:25:43Z")

</div>

😛

yeah… i think i should, anyone sees those links. :-\

or maybe something like…  
[setInterval](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary646.html) (the word setInterval is a link!!)  
would do… 😛

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283/6 "2003-06-02T06:39:51Z")

</div>

LOL, I think I am the only one that notices you ever do that 😛

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283/7 "2003-06-02T06:46:03Z")

</div>

but I see it as setInterval . there is no setInteval there.

right ?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283/8 "2003-06-02T06:46:58Z")

</div>

anyway thanks for showing me the right ‘search’ button.

and to imagine that i visit [kirupa.com](http://kirupa.com) thrice a day…!

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283/9 "2003-06-02T06:55:09Z")

</div>

> _Originally posted by javadi82_  
> \*\*anyway thanks for showing me the right ‘search’ button.

and to imagine that i visit [kirupa.com](http://kirupa.com) thrice a day…!\*\*

so you found it out, did you? 🙂

> _Originally posted by lostinbeta_  
> **LOL, I think I am the only one that notices you ever do that 😛**

that’s because we are smart people… 😛 😉

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 7:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283/10 "2003-06-02T07:16:31Z")

</div>

> \*Originally posted by javadi82 \*  
> \*\*but I see it as setInterval . there is no setInteval there.

right ? \*\*

Click on the word “setInterval” in kax’s original post where it says

> see this: setInterval  
> that word is a link to the macromedia actionscript dictionary of what setInterval is and how it works.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283/11 "2003-06-02T07:21:52Z")

</div>

ok… post edited.

now you can clearly see the stupid link. :hair: 😛

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283/12 "2003-06-02T07:23:16Z")

</div>

lol, now you see why I always post my links like that 😛

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/actionscript-for-pause-time-delay/22283/13 "2003-06-02T07:24:50Z")

</div>

yup… if i ever do that again, please edit my post. 😉