pause method?

[fcharron]

Is there a method that will let me pause my movie for a specified anount of time?

I suppose I can do it with the getTimer() method, just wondering if there is a built in ...
Thanks...

[kimbo2000]

There are different ways,

One easy way is to just have some frames in between the movie for that amount of seconds...

You could also use a control button, The movie stops and a button "play" appears, etc...

I don't really know why you want to use the gettimer fuction, but I recommend this if it is for simple use...

[fcharron]

Unfortunately, I am not in a situation where I can add blank frames. My movie has to be able to play in different "modes" (it's a flow chart demonstration) according to a text input field. I need a pause method for the timing between sounds and motion tweens. I made the following function:

function wait(lenght){
stop();
var init = getTimer();
while (getTimer() - init < lenght){}
play();
}

and I call it whenever I want a pause of lenght miliseconds. The problem with this is that an animation symbol placed on the flowchart stops "animating" during the wait() execution.

Anyone have an Idea?

[metaminds]

the problem I see is when you are using a while or for loop, flash stops all frames until loop is executed. This means flash stops all timelines.

I can reccomend to use an empty MC to do this pause, there are many ways to do it. Many times I have used this script/hadler on empty MC:

onClipEvent (load) {
delay = ...
startTime = getTimer ()
}

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
while (getTimer - startTime < delay){
break
_root.play()
}
}

and just now you can put this empty MC to frame where you need to have a pause


Alex

[fcharron]

Thanks for the reply metaminds!

I understand the onClipEvent(load) part.

onClipEvent (load) {
delay = ...
startTime = getTimer ()
}


In the second onClipEvent, however, won't the break stop the _root.play() from ever playing since it is placed before?

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
while (getTimer - startTime < delay){
break
_root.play()
}
}

I can't seem to make this work. Here's what I understand:

1. onClipEvent(load) ... initialisations ->ok
2. onClipEvent(enterFrame) --------------->ok
3. while( .... ) ------------------------->ok
4. break ....... why get out of the loop?
5. _root.play() ... from where will this make my movie play?
. how will it repeat the empty MC?