# Delaying a button

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-a-button/269894
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 2, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-a-button/269894 "2008-09-02T20:28:48Z")
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### Author: ![elgringoson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@elgringoson](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/elgringoson)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-a-button/269894/1 "2008-09-02T20:28:48Z")

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Am I able to put a delay on a button? for example to stop the user clicking through a set of images too quickly?

Here’s my code I spliced together after searching:

previous\_btn.onRelease = function() {  
prevImage();  
previous\_btn.enabled= false;  
delay = 2000;  
previous\_btn.enabled= true;

};  
next\_btn.onRelease = function() {  
nextImage();  
previous\_btn.enabled= false;  
delay = 2000;  
previous\_btn.enabled= true;  
};

Can someone please help :cowboy: