I need a timed pause in an animate project

[dona68790178]

Working in Animate CC version 18 on PC. How can I create a timed (say 2 seconds) pause.

[ClayUUID]

Insert two seconds of nothing happening in your timeline?

You don't say what you want to happen after the pause so we're kind of limited in how specific a response to give. If this is in code you use setTimeout().

[dona68790178]

I would like for the movie to continue with the next frame.

[ClayUUID · Accepted solution]

If this is AS3:

stop();

setTimeout(play, 2000);

If this is HTML5 Canvas:

this.stop();

setTimeout(this.play.bind(this), 2000);

[Colin Holgate]

I thought about bind, but wasn't sure if it worked with setTimeout.

[ClayUUID]

A function's a function. I was surprised that "this.play" by itself didn't work. I'd have thought that one "this" would have been enough to nail down the scope, but apparently not.

[Colin Holgate]

This script in the timeline should do it:

var _this = this;

this.stop();

setTimeout(doPlay,2000);

function doPlay(){

  _this.play();

}

That works for AS3 and Canvas. If you're just doing AS3 you can do this:

stop();

setTimeout(play,2000);