Delay

[M1tank]

I want to be able to put a delay on a actiionscrip. give you an example:

on (rollOver) {
text="Good Morning.";
(DELAY PART for 20 sec.)
text2="and Good Afternon";
}

i'm open to any ideas. thanks...
M1tank

[HowardTheDuck]

hm.... a 20 second delay without making the flash player complain about a "slowing down" loop...

my idea is to put a new empty MC with 12 frames on stage. Now loop the MC between 10 frames, where no actions are in. when the movie ran the loop 20 times about 20 seconds have passed. Now the MC can set the text2 variable to "Good evening". code:

Frame 1:
cycles = 0;
play();

Frame 12:
cycles++;
gotoAndPlay(2);
if (cycles == 20)
text2 = "Good Evening";

using the first idea would need resructuring of your movie... but as i mentioned above the 2nd idea might make flash player think he's super intelligent:

on (rollOver) {
text="Good Morning.";
// delaycode
start = getTimer();
while ((getTimer() - start) < 20000);
// end delaycode
text2="and Good Afternon";
}

here the while statement checks infinitely how many milliseconds have passed since the rollovera and stops when 20 seconds are passed. and this might be a problem...

Anybody having another idea for delay? I'm quite interested in this stuff too.
Yours
HTD

[erlenmeyer71]

on (rollOver) {
text="Good Morning.";
starttime=getTimer();
while getTimer()-starttime<20000 {
}
text2="and Good Afternon";
}

The problem with this is that when any loop continues for more than 15 seconds, Flash assumes there's a problem and throws up a prompt asking the user if he/she wants to quit the script. So I wouldn't use this to pause more than 5 or 10 seconds.

For longer pauses, you're going to have to do something like this:

on (rollOver) {
gotoAndPlay("label")
}

Frame "label":

text1="Good Morning";
starttime=getTimer();

Frame "label"+2:

if getTimer()-starttime<20000 {
gotoAndPlay(_currentframe-1);
}else{
text2="and Good Afternoon";
}

[M1tank]

Thanks for the help, i'm sure one of the ideas will work best for me, and I'll have to let you know if it works.