How to add a pause before actionscript fade in??

[sirenetta1]

Hello,

I have a picture that I want to fade in when the website launches, but I wanted it to appear after the menu appears. How can I delay the picture, via actionscript, from appearing?

Right now my fade-in code is:

onClipEvent (enterFrame)
{
        if (this._alpha >= 0)
        {
                diff = +10;
        }
      this._alpha += diff;
}

Thanks!

EDIT TO THIS QUESTION:
Well, my fade-in code is somewhat messed up. If I try to fade-in a picture using this code, the code will reset after a minute or so! Do you know how I can stop that??

[yasunobu13]

For your reset problem, I propose the following theory. Going from the code above, every frame, the alpha value is increased by some positive value. Even though alpha makes no sense outside the range of [0,100], the value continues to increase. Due to the computer's finite nature, the value of alpha will be come so large that it will go back to 0 (or a negative number) at which point it continues to increase, threrby giving a visual effect of a fade-in to 100 for a while then snapping to alpha = 0 and fading in again.

Anyway, what I'm really getting at is that you just add this one line of code.

onClipEvent (enterFrame)
{
        if(this._alpha < 100)
        {
                if (this._alpha >= 0)
                {
                        diff = +10;
                }
              this._alpha += diff;
        }
} 

[sirenetta1]

Hey thanks, that looked like it solved the problem! Hmm.. so how could I some time in front of it before it begins??