# Need help in creating a delay function for animations!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-in-creating-a-delay-function-for-animations/68665>\
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**Created:** [October 27, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-in-creating-a-delay-function-for-animations/68665 "2004-10-27T20:06:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![rojkai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dbc845/32.png) [@rojkai](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rojkai)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-in-creating-a-delay-function-for-animations/68665/1 "2004-10-27T20:06:05Z")

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hi,  
im pretty much a newbie when it comes to actionscript so i need help in creating a delay function for my movie clips on my website. basically, theres 3 different movie clips thats going to be loaded when the main stage loads. however i want movie clip 1 to load say ‘X’ seconds after the main page loads. then movie clip 2 loads ‘Y’ seconds after the main stage loads and then movie clip 3 loads ‘Z’ seconds after the main stage loads. i’ve searched on google and found some functions but for some reason, i couldn’t get them to work. any help would be appreciated. thanks.