Advanced pause function

[creativeflow]

hey all,

I need to pause a function for a set amount of time.

This is the best i've been able to come up with but it causes the script to stop responding.


main (){
if (doit == true){
pause();
}
}

pause (){
timer = new Date();
now = timer.getTime();
finish = now + 10
while (now < finish){
now = timer.getTime();
}
}

Any one got any ideas? There has to be a way to create a puse with out using the timeline or any goto actions!

[Mongoose49]

Hey creativeflow,
Try the script found here

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

Ive never tried it but i came across it when someone else suggested this site on a thread, it looked pretty useful so i kept it in mind.

hope it does "it" for you...

[creativeflow]

Hello,

Thanks for the suggestion but I need to do it purly through code. Basically a loop that will keep looping for 0.5 seconds and then the calling fuction will resume.

Another way of thinking about it is:

I have a for loop that is rotating a square by 5 degrees everytime it loops, inorder to have it appear as an animation I need to insert a pause in the loop in order to slow down the animation.

I know it can be done in many ways but the only way that I can do it for this movie is with the use of a single function because there is no animation is the entire movie, everything is code.

[Rydeman]

if(count!=6){
blaha();
blaha();
count++
}else{
count=0;
}