# Delay timer

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delay-timer/36331>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [November 25, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delay-timer/36331 "2003-11-25T16:07:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Smita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Smita](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Smita)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delay-timer/36331/1 "2003-11-25T16:07:35Z")

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hello

I want to get a delay timer in Flash Actionscript.  
I have made a cartoon which wanders all over a playground.It moves from place to place and stops for sometime at every place.  
I want some timer function which i can use to make the charecter wait at a particular place before moving to a new place.  
I want a function analogous to the delay() function in C language so that I can pass a different parameter if I want the charecter to wait for a varied duration.

Please help me on this.

Smita