# Sleep in Flash MX
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sleep-in-flash-mx/21580
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [May 23, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sleep-in-flash-mx/21580 "2003-05-23T11:34:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@wadoodahmed](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/wadoodahmed)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2003, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sleep-in-flash-mx/21580/1 "2003-05-23T11:34:30Z")
How can i bring a delay using the action script
Wadood
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2003, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sleep-in-flash-mx/21580/2 "2003-05-23T11:46:09Z")
[setInterval](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary646.html)? 🙂
could you please be more specific? 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2003, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sleep-in-flash-mx/21580/3 "2003-05-23T11:48:29Z")
I meant I want to bring some delay after the event has occured itried running empty loop which is not a good pratice
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sleep-in-flash-mx/21580/4 "2003-05-23T11:59:28Z")
nope… maybe because it’s 7:00 am and i didn’t sleep at all, but i still don’t get it. 😛
take a deep breath and provide as many details as you can. 😉
however, i think setInterval is what you’re after. have you checked the link i posted?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2003, 12:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sleep-in-flash-mx/21580/5 "2003-05-23T12:04:10Z")
ya thanx jigs thats what I wanted to have. :thumb:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2003, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/sleep-in-flash-mx/21580/6 "2003-05-23T12:11:17Z")
😛
no problem. =)