# Delayed for loop

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delayed-for-loop/206007>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 3, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delayed-for-loop/206007 "2006-11-03T23:56:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![fr\_ode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fr\_ode](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fr_ode)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delayed-for-loop/206007/1 "2006-11-03T23:56:48Z")

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I’ve tried searching the forums for a way to load my xml menu with a small delay between each menu item. I thought I had it with this code:

```auto
function load(){
    clearInterval(loadinterval);
    for (var i = 0; i<8; i++) {
        navHolder_mc.createEmptyMovieClip( "navButton"+i, i );
        var navButton:MovieClip = navHolder_mc["navButton"+i];
        image_mcl.loadClip( astrImages*, navButton );
        }
    }
loadinterval =setInterval(load,200);

```

However, the only thing it does is making me wait 200 ms for the whole menu to load at once.

Can anyone help me out here? I’m stuck.:kir: