Stopping a movie for 5 seconds and then let it start again.

[Acnewbie]

Making a banner in flash cs4, and trying out AS 3.0.
Any one know how i stop the movie for 5 seconds and then let it start again?
Thanks for any reply.

[Creephun]

I never used AS 3.0. But you can delay movies with creating an empty mc. In the first frame you stop it, than make a lots of empty frames after it, and in the last, you write your script. So the movie's need to play this mc (for example if you need 5 sec, and you use 20fps, make 20*5 = 100 frames). And when the 100 frames played, will activate the delayed action.

[Acnewbie]

Thanks for the reply, but one of the reasons i wanted to do this was to avoid "dead frames" or empty frames(even do it's inside a movie clip).
If i create it in your way, wont the file size get larger?

[Creephun]

With empty frames I think won't.

[nunomira]

hi,

Something like this:

import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;

function waitAS3(mc:MovieClip, s:Number = 10):void
{
    mc.stop();
   
    var timer:Timer = new Timer(s*1000, 1);
   
    timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, function()
    {
        mc.play();
    }
    );

    timer.start();
}

// example:
waitAS3(this, 5); // stop this timeline, 5 seconds 

[Acnewbie]

Exactly like that. Work very nicely.
Thanks alot.