# \[F5\] telling a movie to wait

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f5-telling-a-movie-to-wait/34819
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 6, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f5-telling-a-movie-to-wait/34819 "2003-11-06T19:06:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![hammml8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@hammml8](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hammml8)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f5-telling-a-movie-to-wait/34819/1 "2003-11-06T19:06:39Z")

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Is there a way to tell a movie clip to way a number of frames from a specific action being executed (say a button being pushed) before it starts playing?

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f5-telling-a-movie-to-wait/34819/2 "2003-11-07T18:11:34Z")

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Look up the getTimer action in the AS Dictionary 🙂

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/f5-telling-a-movie-to-wait/34819/3 "2003-11-07T18:14:04Z")

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or setInterval and clearInterval 🙂

\*Just noticed htis is Flash 5, don’t know if it’ll work for 5 too, good chance though 🙂