# Delay action by frames

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delay-action-by-frames/97841>\
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**Created:** [December 30, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delay-action-by-frames/97841 "2003-12-30T03:18:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dreamer)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delay-action-by-frames/97841/1 "2003-12-30T03:18:27Z")

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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?