pause the actionscript from execution for 5 seconds

[bananaz]

i have a one frame movie with all the actionscript cluttered...

I want the actionscript to pause or delay for a few seconds from executing and then continue on its own... how can this happen?

Thanks!

[Frank DeRosa]

Is it critical that your script all execute in one frame? If not, put 5 seconds worth of frames in between the scripts that need to be separated.

Frank

[bananaz]

Below is my code... all of it is in one(first) frame
is there no way we can say..... delay(500) as we do in other programming languages?

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fscommand("fullscreen", "true");
fscommand("showmenu", "false");
fscommand("allowscale", "true");
slides_xml = new XML();
slides_xml.onLoad = startSlideShow;
slides_xml.load("sds.xml");
slides_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
targetClip._alpha = 0;
//
// Show the first slide and intialize variables
function startSlideShow(success) {
if (success == true) {
rootNode = slides_xml.firstChild;
totalSlides = rootNode.childNodes.length;
firstSlideNode = rootNode.firstChild;
currentSlideNode = firstSlideNode;
currentIndex = 1;
updateSlide(firstSlideNode);
}
}
//
// Updates the current slide with new image and text
function updateSlide(newSlideNode) {
imagePath = newSlideNode.attributes.jpegURL;
// added this to create a temp mc that can be removed
// _root.createEmptyMovieClip("temp_mc", -500);
// added this to get the alpha fading to work properly
// _root.temp_mc.onEnterFrame = function()
onEnterFrame = function () {
if (targetClip._alpha>10 && fadeOut){
targetClip._alpha -= 10;}
if (targetClip._alpha<10) {
targetClip.mohak.loadMovie(imagePath);
targetClip2.mohak.loadMovie(imagePath);
fadeOut = false;
fadeIn = true;}
if (targetClip._alpha<100 && fadeIn && !fadeOut)
{
targetClip._alpha += 10;}
else {fadeIn = false;}
if (input>30){
input = 30;}
slideText = newSlideNode.firstChild.nodeValue;
styleId = newSlideNode.attributes.ID;

if (currentIndex<30 && !fadeIn && !fadeOut) {
fadeOut = true;
nextSlideNode = currentSlideNode.nextSibling;
updateSlide(nextSlideNode);
currentSlideNode = nextSlideNode;
}};
}
//
// Event handler for 'Next slide' button
next_btn.onRelease = function() {
nextSlideNode = currentSlideNode.nextSibling;
if (nextSlideNode == null) {
break;
} else {
updateSlide(nextSlideNode);
currentSlideNode = nextSlideNode;
if (currentIndex<30 && !fadeIn && !fadeOut) {
fadeOut = true;
currentIndex++;
input = currentIndex;
}
}
};
//
// Event handler for 'Previous slide' button
back_btn.onRelease = function() {
previousSlideNode = currentSlideNode.previousSibling;
if (previousSlideNode == null) {
break;
} else {
currentSlideNode = previousSlideNode;
updateSlide(previousSlideNode);
if (currentIndex>1 && !fadeIn && !fadeOut) {
fadeOut = true;
currentIndex--;
input = currentIndex;
}
}
};

[Frank DeRosa]

I suppose you could write up a while loop like this (pseudocode):

[FONT = courier new]startTime = currentTime();
delayLength = 5000;

While((startTime - currentTime) > delayLenght){
//do nothing
}[/FONT]

It's an old fashioned delay loop. It probably isn't precise, but it wouldn't be far from 5 sec.

Frank