# Pausing scrolling text

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-scrolling-text/222329>\
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**Created:** [April 12, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-scrolling-text/222329 "2007-04-12T15:42:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![korkor5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71c47a/32.png) [@korkor5](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/korkor5)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pausing-scrolling-text/222329/1 "2007-04-12T15:42:41Z")

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Hello All!

i am working on a project where i have to make text scroll upwards but pauses for 3 sec when the text reaches the center of the stage and moves upwards and the same applies to the rest of the text.

I have been able to make the texts scroll upwards but have not been able to stop it when it reaches the cente. could anyone please help me out here?

this is the code that makes the stage move upwards thus creating the impression that the code is moving upwards:

\_root.onEnterFrame=function()

```
{

```

this.\_y+=-10;

```
}

```

So what i want is for the stage to kind of pause at some point when the text is at the centre of the stage

thanx  
korkor5