# Is there a way to make a time delay in flash?

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**Created:** [February 26, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-a-time-delay-in-flash/102734 "2004-02-26T15:01:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![iloveitaly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7ea924/32.png) [@iloveitaly](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/iloveitaly)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-a-time-delay-in-flash/102734/1 "2004-02-26T15:01:54Z")

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I wnat to make a one second delay before the button does the rollout effect. Is there some actionscript that i cam insert to do this? I could insert some blank frames but it doesn’t give me the effect i want.  
thanks