# Pause timeline, then resume?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-timeline-then-resume/63310>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 5, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-timeline-then-resume/63310 "2004-09-05T06:05:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![jwhitmill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@jwhitmill](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jwhitmill)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-timeline-then-resume/63310/1 "2004-09-05T06:05:27Z")

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Is there any way to get playback of a timeline to pause for, say, 5 seconds, then resume? I can put empty frames in to space it out, but I wondered if there were an ActionScript way to specify the pause interval.

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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:** [September 5, 2004, 7:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-timeline-then-resume/63310/2 "2004-09-05T07:39:38Z")

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[font=Courier New]setInterval()[font=Verdana] is perfect for you. It executes a given function after a specified amount of time has passed.

```auto

 [/font][/font][font=Courier New][font=Verdana]stop();
 resume = function () {
     play();
     clearInterval(pauseTimeline);
 };
 pauseTimeline = setInterval(resume, 5000);[/font][/font][font=Courier New][font=Verdana]
 

```

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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:** [September 5, 2004, 7:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-timeline-then-resume/63310/3 "2004-09-05T07:46:51Z")

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Thank you!

> [@Voetsjoeba](#):
>
> [font=Courier New]setInterval()[font=Verdana] is perfect for you. It executes a given function after a specified amount of time has passed.
> 
> ```auto
> 
> [/font][/font][font=Courier New][font=Verdana]stop();
> resume = function () {
> play();
> clearInterval(pauseTimeline);
> };
> pauseTimeline = setInterval(resume, 5000);[/font][/font][font=Courier New][font=Verdana]
>  
> 
> ```
> 
> [/font][/font]

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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:** [September 5, 2004, 8:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pause-timeline-then-resume/63310/4 "2004-09-05T08:01:09Z")

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You’re welcome 🙂