stay on one frame

[novice2004]

I use Flash 5.
As I understand I can stop playing frames in Flash
using "stop()";
Is there a way I can stay on one frame for 5 seconds and so delay playing next frames until 5 seconds expire?
Thank you.

 

[TheConeHead]

You could just hardcode in 5 seconds worth of frames... but you could also do something like in frame 5 start an imbedded mc and have that mc send the parent movie on at the end of it (5 seconds later....)

 

[pixl8r]

In the frame where you currently have your stop() action.

Remove stop().

So if your stop() action was on frame 20 you would change the action on that frame to:

if (myTimer == null){
   myTimer = getTimer();
}

if (getTimer() >= myTimer+5000){
   gotoAndPlay(22)
}

On frame 21 you would simply add:

gotoAndPlay(20);

That's it. A 5 second timer.

Hope it helps.

Wow JT that almost looked like you knew what you were doing!

 

[novice2004]

Thanks a lot.