AS3 HTML5 - Play, Stop, Pause, Play HELP!

[mnarlock]

Here's my scenario. I have a button that has AS3 attached that tells it on mouseclick to play a movie clip. The movie clip plays from frame 1 - 15. On frame 15 there is a this.stop(). When it's hit again, the movie clip plays from frame 16-30. The first 1-15 frames of the movie clip is a tween that fades the object up...and the latter half fades it down. 

What I'm struggling with is I'd like the movie clip to continue playing after X seconds in case no one has pressed the button a second time and I don't know how. Essentially, after X seconds, fade the movie clips down. 

As I indicated, I have an Actions layer associated with each buttons that tells them what to do, then Actions layer on the movie clips that have stops at frame 1 and 15 with tweens for fading up and down.

[kglad · Accepted solution]

use setInterval or setTimeout

[mnarlock]

Yep. Tried that. No joy. I'm undoubtedly doing it wrong.

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Michael J. Narlock

[kglad]

what code did you use that failed? (don't post all your code, just the relevant part.)

[mnarlock]

I don't know how or why, but the precise code I used on Friday that didn't work, suddenly works as expected on Monday morning. I guess it just needed the weekend to get itself together!

[kglad]

thanks for the update.