Hide error messages after a time period

[albie101]

I have a movie which displays simple error messages in a dynamic text field when you do something wrong. I want to be able to hide the messages after say 8 seconds but I'm not quite sure how to go about doing it. Any ideas?

 

[wangbar]

If you put the message clearing code in a function you can use setInterval():

clearError = function () {
// set dynamic textbox to empty
errorMessage.text = "";
// get rid of interval after it's done its job
clearInterval(clearMessage);
};
//time set in milliseconds
clearMessage = setInterval(clearError, 8000);