loop / pause in movie clip - duration in seconds instead of number of frames

Question

hi,

i want to know if there's a smart way of creating long-ish,
easily editable pauses in movies clips using actionscripting
(instead of just throw in dozens more frames in the timeline)?

i'm currently using a loop as such:

i++
if (i<500) {
 gotoAndPlay("waitingForUser");
 trace(i)
} else {
 gotoAndPlay("autoScroll ");
} 
this has it looping through 500 times so is obviously
dependant on framerate. is there a way to do this and have it loop
for for x amount of seconds instead?

many thanks,

ponch

Newsgroup_User · Answer

There is an undocumented method in Flash called setTimeout() that is similar
to setInterval().

function thingToDo() {
//code to do something like
gotoAndStop(_currentframe + 1);
}

code to be placed on the frame that is to be timed:

myTimer = setTimeout(thingToDo, 2000) //where 2000 is delay in milliseconds

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