# Time Delay

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-delay/56898
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 8, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-delay/56898 "2004-07-08T17:27:56Z")
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### Author: ![fatman2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/34f0e0/32.png) [@fatman2000](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fatman2000)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2004, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-delay/56898/1 "2004-07-08T17:27:56Z")

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hi there … does anyone know how to delay a certain part of an actionscript. That is make the script wait for a couple of seconds before executing?

thanks

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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: [July 8, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-delay/56898/2 "2004-07-08T17:29:53Z")

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setInterval().

Give it a look up in the AS dictionary or run a search on the forums.