# Pausing AS in AS
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-as-in-as/29378
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 26, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-as-in-as/29378 "2003-08-26T04:52:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@blah\_de\_blah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/blah_de_blah)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-as-in-as/29378/1 "2003-08-26T04:52:39Z")
Does anyone know how you can pause an actionscript code? I’ve found posts which explain how to pause animations, but none on how to pause actual actionscript commands :-\
A quick example would be to make a box increase in size (which was done through AS). But when it gets to 100 pixels wide, i want it to pause for 3 seconds before continuing again. Thanks for the help!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-as-in-as/29378/2 "2003-08-26T06:34:44Z")
Hi,
You can use the break; command to exit a method. And then at the same time you exit the code you can call an interval that has been made to call another function after 3 seconds, then clear that interval.
Regards,
Viru.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 10:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-as-in-as/29378/3 "2003-08-26T10:09:27Z")
Thanks, but what if i don’t have another function to call? And if what i’m exiting is not a method?? :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-as-in-as/29378/4 "2003-08-26T12:29:08Z")
Then i cant help, sorry. I dont know how or what to do.
Regards,
Viru.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-as-in-as/29378/5 "2003-08-26T14:07:59Z")
Use setInterval 🙂
```auto
blabla.onEnterFrame = function() {
// do stuff
if (this._xscale > 100) {
delete this.onEnterFrame ;
this.interval = setInterval (this, "grow", 3000) ;
}
}
```
where grow could be a nice little prototype that makes a clip grow.
pom 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-as-in-as/29378/6 "2003-08-26T14:13:18Z")
Doesn’t setInterval keep repeating? anyways this is the code i have:
[AS]
function lengthIn(mc1, finWidth, finHeight) {
mc1.onEnterFrame = function() {
mc1.\_width += 30;
if (mc1.\_width\>=finWidth) {
mc1.\_width = finWidth;
//Trying to get the 3 seconds to start here, and then do the stuff under
mc1.\_height += 30;
if (mc1.\_height\>=finHeight) {
mc1.\_height = finHeight;
delete mc1.onEnterFrame;
}
}
};
}
[/AS]
This is what i’m tryin to do (if you look at the comment in the code that is what i want…but i’m not sure how i can do it :-\ thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-as-in-as/29378/7 "2003-08-26T14:19:59Z")
Then again, if i changed the bottom bits to function it should work…then i’d need lots of extra functions though so is there another way?! 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-as-in-as/29378/8 "2003-08-26T14:33:45Z")
> \*Originally posted by blah-de-blah \*
> \*\*Doesn’t setInterval keep repeating? \*\*
> All you have to do is clear the interval in the grow function.
Check Sen’s site, he has a good explanation of all this 🙂