# Delaying an gotoAndPlay action
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-an-gotoandplay-action/29943
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 2, 2003, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-an-gotoandplay-action/29943 "2003-09-02T09:28:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@ahaab](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ahaab)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2003, 9:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-an-gotoandplay-action/29943/1 "2003-09-02T09:28:19Z")
hello everybody… thanks for edvices posted.
this is what i need to learn today:
i have this movie clip that i want to keep playing from time to time
but because it is shot keeps flashing.
how can one delay the loop.
greetings from Portugal…Ahaab:)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2003, 9:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-an-gotoandplay-action/29943/2 "2003-09-02T09:57:39Z")
Hi, I don’t fully understand your question, do you want the clip to pause before it plays or to play then pause before it loops round again
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2003, 9:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-an-gotoandplay-action/29943/3 "2003-09-02T09:57:40Z")
hi ahaab,
try searching for your post, there are a lot of similar posts about time delay…
this post it may help?
Check out this post.
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/s...7933#post267933](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/s...7933#post267933)
oohps…you got in there before me m\_andrews…hate it when that happens 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2003, 10:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-an-gotoandplay-action/29943/4 "2003-09-02T10:03:11Z")
Hi,
You can either add some extra frames at the end of you animation
or you could set an interval and call the animation every so often.
Something like:
in the main timeline:
```php
interval = function(){
var timeToWait= random(6);
this.lapseId = setInterval("callAnimation", interval);
}
callAnimation = function(){
myAnimation.gotoAndPlay(2);
}
this.interval();
```
And in the last frame of your animation:
```php
clearInterval(this._parent.lapseId);
this._parent.interval();
```
this way it will happen every so often at random intervals
SHO
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2003, 10:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delaying-an-gotoandplay-action/29943/5 "2003-09-02T10:11:45Z")
i´m kind of sleepy and the frames solution escaped mi mind.
i will apply it i thank the php solution, and try to use it in future, because i am too green on as, and some times staring at code is like staring at a dinossaure.
greetings …Ahaab