Delay action by frames

programming flash
1

How do you delay an action until a certain number of frames?
on (release) {
play();
function loadIn(movie) {
content.loadMovie(movie);
clearInterval(loadInterval);
}
loadInterval = setInterval(loadIn, 200, “musical/interviews/peteteo/peteteo.swf”);
}

This is the code for milliseconds, however, its not efective.

any clues?

2

You can use the movieclip._currentframe property.

3

how does that work?

4

You can retrieve the movieclip’s current frame.
What exactly you want to do?

5

this code which i’m using now is:
on (release) {
play();
function loadIn(movie) {
content.loadMovie(movie);
clearInterval(loadInterval);
}
loadInterval = setInterval(loadIn, 200, “musical/interviews/peteteo/peteteo.swf”);
}

What this does is that once the button is clicked on the action will not happen until 200 milliseconds later.

Instead of 200 miliseconds how do i make that 30 frames?

6

why do you want it 30 frames? How is your movie set up?

7

its just an example. i want to put any frame value in it.

8

i don’t want to use time as the counter. instead i want to use frames as the counter. eg.

when this button is click on the action will not happen until 30 frames later.

9

Something like this (be careful not to erase anything with the onEnterFrame):

on (release) {
play();
this.onEnterFrame = function () {
// this will overwrite the onEnterFrame of the timeline containing the button
this.i++;
if (this.i == 30) {
content.loadMovie("musical/interviews/peteteo/peteteo.swf");
delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
}
}

pom :slight_smile: