HOW DO YOU SIMPLY "PAUSE" THE PLAYHEAD for a few seconds?

Let's say you wanted to simply pause the PLAYHEAD with actionscript, and then start the playhead again automatically, after, say, 5 seconds??? Is there a way to do that, assuming nothing else is going on in your flash movie during that time...and I DON'T want to add 5 seconds worth of blank keyframes???

hkampr@yahoo.com

Define a pause function on the first frame of your movie...

code:

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function pause(){

play();

clearInterval(timer);

};

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Then on any frame you want to pause the main timeline, just add the following...

code:

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stop();

timer = setInterval(pause, 5000);

//where 5000 is 5 seconds or 60000, 1 minute.

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Thanks, that AS works perfectly!

If one wanted it to stop the music 'n' seconds into the song instead of pause, wouild I just leave the 'timer' part out.

If so, would this then be the end of that play and they would have to re play to get the song again?

Also is the whole song uploaded into the browser cache or can one have only a part of the song taken into the cache.

Thanks

oz

this works great / thanks a lot!

oldnewbie...u rock...

thanks for the code. awesome!

what if you have a 2d game like alien hominid, and you want to exit to a pause menu by clicking a button, whilst still being able to return to the game as it was just before you paused it? (like a 'resume' button in the pause menu)

i figured i might just multiply everything with a number that i make 0 when the game is paused, and 1 when it's running. however, that's very messy. is there any other way to do this?
should i store all the in-game data in an array and load that array whenever i exit the menu? that's also a lot of work, especially if i want the array to be compatible with any in-game situation.

so my question is:
how on earth do i do this???

thank you. :D

Alternatively you can also try TimelineMax by the same people behind TweenMax.
http://www.greensock.com/timelinemax/

It's a beastly class platform! :)

looks great. what exactly are you suggesting? Do you think this program will sove my problem? thanks.

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Originally Posted by koenahn

looks great. what exactly are you suggesting? Do you think this program will sove my problem? thanks.

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Oldnewbie's code will work, and if you're happy with it then that's cool. But what TimelineMax does is gives you the ability to do a whole lot more, like reversing the timeline animation, or stop it, or do something crazy like yo-yo; which loops the animation between the starting frame and ending frame (think of a conveyor belt). It's really quite amazing what you can do with it. :)

it also prevents you from understanding what you're doing. On another hand, i wouldn't know how to build a car from scratch...

gparis

something like this?

Actionscript Code:

function endPause():Void{
    play();
    clearInterval(timer);
}
function pauseThaGame():Void{
    stop();
    timer = setInterval(endPause(),*int*);
}
if(Key.isDown(*pausekey*)){
    pauseThaGame();//pauses the game for *int* millisecs
}

but it wil pause the app for a certain interval, not until a button is being pressed, and that's not what i want to do at all.
Besides, it will stop the entire flash app, instead of just pausing the game. i want a controllable pause menu to pop up, you know. if the app is being paused, the menu won't work either, will it?

:domo:
danke shön.

Just use stop() and play() if its the timeline you want to pause on button actions.

It really depends on WHAT you want to stop:
To stop an enterFrame loop, use:
delete this.onEnterframe;
To stop a setInterval use:
clearInterval();
To stop a function from executing the next block of code use:
break;

The list goes on.

gparis

delete this.onEnterframe; ?
niceee!
i didn't know it existed!
i'm going to put all of my funcs inside of the onEnterFrame, except the ones controlling the pause menu! wooot!
thank you VERY much!! :D