pausing an animation

Hi,

I want to pause an animation for a few seconds.
I dont want to increase the frames to make the animation to pause.
can any body tell me how i can do it using actionscript.

thanks
GugZ
India

Haven't tried this, but give it a shot...

Make a function that stores the current frame in a variable, stops the movie, then when told, restarts at that stored frame. Kinda get it? Something like this...

Code:

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function pause (value) {
    if (value==pause) {
        pause_frame = _currentframe;
        stop;
    } else if (value==play) {
        gotoAndPlay (pause_frame);
    }
}

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lemme know how that works :)
[Edited by spielboy on 05-23-2002 at 05:53 PM]