Time delayed script

I want to put a time delay into my animation. so when the playhead gets to say frame 10, it waits 5 second and carries out a another instruction or loops the animation again or whatever. I'm just interested in adding the delay in seconds to my scripts. How?

http://www.actionscripts.org/tutoria...ts/index.shtml

(I find this a bit confusing, if anyone has a easier solution, please post it)

Thanks I'll try that.

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Originally posted by Aelo
I think this is much simpler...

first frame of animation>>

Code:

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var startTime = getTimer();
var countAmount = 5;
var elapsed = 0;

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Code:

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I think something is missing here...

I think this is much simpler...

first frame of animation timeline>>

Code:

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var startTime = getTimer();
var countAmount = 5;
var elapsed = 0;

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last frame of animation timeline>>

Code:

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elapsed = getTimer() -starTime;
if (elapsed > countAmount *1000) {
gotoAndPlay(1);
} else {
stop();
}

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It's not working though. What am I missing?

Someone please help. If the aniimation is 30 frames, I have the top script in frame 1 and the second script in frame 30 in seperate scripts layer. What am I missing with regard to it holding for 30 seconds and then proceeding to loop again?

your 'if' statement only checks once
so if elapsed is not > 5000 on the first check
then it just stops