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Hi every1!I've recently made a freelance website about a famous football(soccer) player. The site's URL is http://solitaryfigo.tripod.com ... That index page has an "enter" thing... So, after U enter into the main site, U'll see a screen which has 3 SWFs... 1 SWF is @ the top(like the size of this avator), 1 in the centre(the main movie) & 1 @ the bottom(Partners, etc.). Now, here's the prob... the 1st & 3rd SWF movies' preloader appears as soon as you enter the site but the preloader of the main movie takes at least 2 mins(or more) @ 56K to appear... this is very annoying. & many visitors also leave the site.Y? Y does it take so long?pls take a look with a 56K & let me know soon(it takes 2 secs on DSL).Thanks, in advance 4 any help!---R@F

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Posted on: Oct 28, 2003, 12:53

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2mins Delay
Hi every1!
I've recently made a freelance website about a famous football(soccer) player.
The site's URL is http://solitaryfigo.tripod.com ... That index page has an "enter" thing... So, after U enter into the main site, U'll see a screen which has 3 SWFs... 1 SWF is @ the top(like the size of an avator), 1 in the centre(the main movie) & 1 @ the bottom(Partners, etc.). Now, here's the prob... the 1st & 3rd SWF movies' preloader appears as soon as you enter the site but the preloader of the main movie takes at least 2 mins(or more) @ 56K to appear... this is very annoying. & many visitors also leave the site.
Y? Y does it take so long?
pls take a look with a 56K & let me know soon(it takes 2 secs on DSL).
Thanks, in advance 4 any help!
---R@F

Automatic Back To Start After 2mins Inactivity?
I have to convert a flash web site so that it can be used in a Museum exhibition. After a visitor has been through the site my client wants the flash site to go back to the start page ( welcome to this museum exhibition). This would be the first scene in the movie. What script do I use to acheive this goal? I want the movie to go back to start after 2 minutes of inactivity.

Many thanks,

Celtic_Sofa_Surfer

Delay: Need Escapable Time Delay Actionscript2.0 Function (Flash8Pro)...
Hi,

I am brand new to Flash® 8 Professional. I have many year experiece as a Visual C++ programmer, but am having some troubles learning to code in Actionscript2.0...

I wish to have an Actionscript2.0 function that does the following:
Delay for x milliseconds, but if user clicks mouse in Flash document then delay is immediately over.

Can someone with experience give me some hints on how to code this in Actionscript2.0? I am using Flash® 8 Professional.

Thanks in advance!

P.S. - Working on a Flash® Tetris® game called "TetriCrisis100%™".

JeZ+Lee
Silent Hero Productions®

Delay And Cancel Delay
Hello,

I'm having some trouble delaying single keyframes keyframe in flash.

I'm making a 5 slide slideshow over 5 frames. Each frame needs to last about 4000ms, although this is flexible.
BUT the 4000ms delay must be able to be reset when a button is pressed.

There are 5 buttons on the slideshow allowing a user to return to a previous slide or skip ahead without having to wait.

However the button when clicked switches frame but does not reset the delay set on the previous keyframe. So the whole slideshow goes out of sync until it just flashs different slides repeatedly. I've tried what I consider to be everything but as I am a novice I could do with the help of a pro.

The other problem I have which goes hand in hand with the one above is that I need the movie to pause and then resume when the mouse rolls over and rolls out from a particular area i.e. a button. But I have tried setting on rollover stop and on rollout play wtc (I know the syntax is wrong but I used the correct in the fla file) needless to say it doesn't work.

I have uploaded the fla file to here in case it helps: http://manage.merrions.com/slideshow.zip

I have attached the function i am using to delay each frame.

Thanks in advance

Chris

Attach Code

function wait() {
stop();
var myInterval = setInterval(
function () {
play();
clearInterval(myInterval);
}
, 6*1000);
}
wait();

15 Second Delay
can anyone help me with the scripting involved to create a 15 second time delay within a movie?

ie. count the time at whatever frame and when time = 15 seconds go to frame whatever.

thanks

Delay
Hi every 1

Does any1 nows how to delay the displaying af a text. Its like this: when you push button the movie goes somewhere and then display the text-file. Text file is in html., and it is the text i whant to delay for about 1-2 sec. before displaying.

Thanks.

From Denmark

Tony.

Delay
Please.... Would anyone no how to put a delay on a glint effect? I want the "glint" to shine across a word at a fast speed and then repeat again about 30 seconds after. If I use the Goto and play action it just repeats to quickly! Im not much of an action scripter or even a flasher, Im still a rookie. Please help!

P.S.~If you dont know what I mean by "glint" I found it under the text effects tutorial.

Delay
Can we set a delay at any frame in a flash movie and after the delay the playbackhead will automatically move forward, as we can set the delay in Director.

please help

Delay?
how to tell a movieclip to do something after a certain period of time, without any tweens?

thanks

Delay?
I'm using this code on a button:

on (release) {
lose.gotoAndPlay(2);
liberal.gotoAndPlay(2);
monop.gotoAndPlay(2);
comp.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

However, I want a delay between the clips - e.g clip1 plays, then a 0.5sec gap, then clip2 plays, then a 0.5sec gap etc etc. I cannot modify the contents of the MC, but can it be done with actionscript?

Thanks

Delay
hi,

i just want 30seconds delay in actionscript after that it will go nextframe.

Delay In MC
I have added the following script to the button
<
on (release) {
gotoAndPlay(10);
time=getTimer();
while ((getTimer()-time)<5000);
gotoAndPlay(1);
}
>

I want when this button is being pressed to play frame 10 , after that to make delay of 5 sec. and to play frame 1.
But Actually i am getting delay in 5 sec. without playing the frame 10 and only frame that is shown is frame 1.

Please help )

And if someone knows how to implement exit() function in Action script in order to terminate the application like quit button

Delay
Hello
how do i introduce a delay of 10 seconds in a single frame with the help of action script.

bye
geethanandh

Delay
Can I put a script on a frame that tells the movie to delay for example 30 seconds? Right now I'm using way to many frames to delay my movie and it's getting kind of frustrating.

Delay..
Hi I use this to create 15 duplicate in a new position.

for (x=0; x<15; x++) { duplicateMovieClip ("targetMC", "dupMC"+x, x); _root["dupMC"+x]._y = x*5;}

HOW can I give it a delay between the duplicates ?

Have a nice day :-)

Delay
Hi, I have teh following code wich speaks for it self:

Code:
if (random(300) ==99) {
tellTarget ("_root.home mouse down") {
play();
tellTarget ("_root.country mouse down") {
play();
tellTarget ("_root.links mouse over") {
play();
}
}
}
}

it will play certain movies at the same time. This is not the effect I would like to get....There should be a delay between the movies. How can this be done? ( delay= 1 sec)

thnx a lot!

Delay
hey guys how can i add a delay???
without using the timeline (in AS)
is there some kind of "sleep()" function like in win32???

Delay
At the end of a Flash 5 movie, i want to have a delay for few seconds and then replay it. What's the best way to do this with code instead of just extending the frames out to where I want it to loop?

Thanks,
John

Delay
Hello,

one thing i was never able to understand in Flash is how to create a delay not using empty frames. In this moment i have this code:

on (press) {
for (i=1; i < 10; i++) {
// I WANT TO INSERT A 1 SECOND DELAY BEFORE EACH FADE IN.
_root.content.showContent["designLine0" + i].fadeIn(5,50);
}
}

I want to insert a 1 second delay. How to do this?

Thanks,
Miguel

About Delay
I am using FLASH 5.0 and when i update flash player when i enter a page that haves a late version of FLASH the movies i did in FLASH 5.0 becomes delay whith not sincronism audio to the images?

I have reinstall the FLASH 5.0 and the movies i made start to work fine again, so i get into a site and again update and delay.

Why this happend?

What can i do?

Delay?
does anyone know how to delay the playhead in flash - say for 3 seconds as an example - cheers.

Delay
ive created this mask that moves with my mouse exactly when i move it. But now i want it to have some delay time. so if i move my mouse quickly, the mask slowly comes after. can anyone give me the script for this?

30 Sec Delay ?
I have a main movie that pulls in external swf files.
How would I create a 30 second time delay on the timeline of the main movie based on what is happening on the timeline of the loaded external swf?

Help With Delay.
Hi,
When my movie comes to the end, I use stop();

I want it to wait 30 seconds before going back to the first frame. Can anyone help me on how to delay a movie before looping back to the start?

I tried using something like this:

var count;
count = 1;
if (count<2000) {
count = count++;
} else {
gotoAndPlay(1);
}

But this did nothing. I'm using MX 2004 v7.

Thanks in advance,
-Meezee

If, Then With Delay, Else.. No Delay
Okay, I have this working perfectly.. if tops is open, close tops before opening bottoms, if bottoms is open close bottoms before opening tops.. works like a charm.. i just need to delay it by a certain amount of time.. say half a second..
but only if i need to close before opening... no delay needed if there is nothing to close...

any ideas?
sorry if that is confusing.. it works in my head

frame 1:
code:
closeTops=false;
closeBottoms=false;

function CloseTops() {
if (closeTops) {
_root.tops.gotoAndPlay(6);
closeTops=true;
} else {
closeTops=false;
}
}
function CloseBottoms() {
if (closeBottoms) {
_root.bottoms.gotoAndPlay(6);
closeBottoms=true;
} else {
closeBottoms=false;
}
}

Cheers

Delay
How do I delay something from happening in AS? Like i want some text to come up and then be there for say five seconds and then fade out and then have some other MC be loaded in....

if thats not a clear question let me know

Delay Help.
To make things a little clearer I'll add images

Ok heres the problem (as I hope u can see in the image).
I made an mp3 player for a clients site. The original
was frame based that a friedn showed me but so many
variables effected it's playback performance since the
player is loaded as a sub movie.

So I (with help again since I suck at AS - I'm more for
the design ) I made a timer which works very well if
you let it play straight through, but heres where the
problems appears.

PROBLEM:
10 scenes each using the same script just calling
different songs. the delay timer works fine HOWEVER
if you skip to another scene (song) and new timer starts
and the old one continues, the result the player sounds
like it starts skipping as it jumps to the next tract
when the original timer calls for it. the script and
layout is shown in the image...

What I'm looking for is help making a quick command
in frame 1 that unloads the timer. that way as it skips
along or if they skip it unloads the old timers in
frame 1 and starts a new one in frame 2 (what it does now).

Or if anyoneone has any other ideas. All help is appriciated.

T.I.A.

-Sketch

Delay Help
i have 9 movieclips and are all not visible when the movie loads.
what i want to happen is when i click a button, it will make the movieclips visible one at a time with a half second delay in between...i've trie using setInterval and it wont work. i would really be thankful for any help...

here is the code im using:

PHP Code:

//inside frame1:
Array.prototype.shuffle=function(){
   for(i=0;i<this.length;i++){
      var tmp=this[i];
      var randomNum=random(this.length);
      this[i]=this[randomNum];
      this[randomNum]=tmp;
   }
}

//inside button:
on (release){
arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9];
arr.shuffle();

for (x=0;x<9;x++)
{
   num1 = arr[x];
   id = setInterval(disp7,500,num1);
}

function disp7(num:Number) {
clearInterval(id);
if (num == 1) {
   face.a1._visible = true;
}
else if (num == 2) {
   face.a2._visible = true;
}
else if (num == 3) {
   face.a3._visible = true;
}
else if (num == 4) {
   face.a4._visible = true;
}
else if (num == 5) {
   face.a5._visible = true;
}
else if (num == 6) {
   face.b5._visible = true;
}
else if (num == 7) {
   face.c4._visible = true;
}
else if (num == 8) {
   face.d3._visible = true;
}
else if (num == 9) {
   face.e3._visible = true;
}
}
}

Set A Delay
How do I set the timeline to wait on a frame for a few seconds before moving on?

Thanks

ponayck

URL Delay
hi, I've recently been struggling with buttons with sound in a previous topic, but I eventually got it to work, but this time, when I assign the buttons to a certain webpage, with the code:

on (release) {
getURL("http://hem.bredband.net/roniish/index_gallery.htm");
}

it loads way to fast, the sound starts but then stops again, because the page loads way too quickly, so I was wondering if there's any delay you can enter so that the page doesn't load too quickly? Thanks.

Delay
hi
I have a problem I am coping with for hours now... Certainly there is a very easy solution^^ An actionscript-code would be the best solution for me.

There is a frame with to buttons - a back-button and a forward-button. If i release one of those another movieclip has to perform an action. after 9 framesof the movieclip the frame in which the movielip is placed has to go to the next frame... that means I need a delay of 2641ms (I got to know that time by tracing). I tried this code:

Code:
on(release){

i = 0;
zeit = 1;

//this is for the movieclip

if(funktionmc.weiter_up = true)
{
_root.funktionmc.gotoAndPlay(47);
} else {
_root.funktionmc.gotoAndPlay(32);
}

//my try to create a delay begins

function verzögerung(zeit)
{
while (i !== zeit)
{
gotoAndPlay(_currentframe + 0);
i++;
setInterval(verzögerung(zeit),2641);
}
}

verzögerung(zeit);
gotoAndPlay(45); //now the timeline should got to the next frame

}

I hope my English was good enough for others but me to understand...
Thanks in advance =)

[F8] Delay
I have some code
Code:
function ai(){
while(k<4){
duplicateMovieClip(flight, "compflight"+k,k);
k++;
}
}
creates 4 movieclips virtually simultaneously. I want a delay between each one appearing. Any ideas please?

A Way To Delay? In AS
So I have a FLA file that has bouncing basketballs that bounce across the stage. I have my code on the first frame of one of the layers. YEAY everything works fine and dandy. My question is, is there a way to say in AS don't start any sort of animation for 5 seconds. Becuase when I publish or test this movie it starts right away. I need about a 4 second delay. How is this accomplished anyone???

~**~~**~

What Can Be The Cause Of The Delay?
I have a swf online showing my brother's performing calendar. It collects information from a couple of xml-files and some textfiles, then puts it all together, picking the appropriate logo's and images.

Everything works fine offline, but once online, the trouble starts. Some people get just the spinning logo. Renewing the window a couple of times helps, but sometimes some fields are still "undefined" until another renewal. Who knows

What's going on?
The file 's here:
http://users.pandora.be/vitalsoundfiles/aagenda.html

Thanks for having a look!

Delay?
hey there,

i am looking for a 'delay' parameter for the mx tweening classes.

i don't see one and am looking for a way to sequence the following animations.

TWO QUESTIONS:
1) IS THERE A DELAY PARAMETER?
2) IF NOT, HOW DOES ONE SEQUENCE ANIMATIONS USING THE BUILT-IN MX CLASSES?

here's the code:

import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;

function startMeUp():Void {

this.createEmptyMovieClip("holder", 2);

//load up all elements
holder.attachMovie("bravoLogo", "bravoLogo_mc", 4, {_x: 585, _y: 10});
holder.attachMovie("background", "background_mc", 1, {_x: 0, _y: 0});
holder.attachMovie("headline", "headline_mc", 40, {_x: -6, _y: 6});
holder.attachMovie("shouldShe", "shouldShe_mc", 60, {_x: 30, _y: 37});
holder.attachMovie("frame1", "frame1_mc", 20, {_x: 30, _y: 35});
holder.attachMovie("frame2", "frame2_mc", 19, {_x: 30, _y: 35});
holder.attachMovie("frame3", "frame3_mc", 18, {_x: 60, _y: 44});
holder.attachMovie("kathyImage", "kathyImage_mc", 17, {_x: 170, _y:-20});
holder.attachMovie("kathyLogo", "kathyLogo_mc", 12, {_x: 466, _y: 5});
holder.attachMovie("starburst1", "starburst1_mc", 11, {_x: 466, _y: 0});
holder.attachMovie("starburst1", "starburst4_mc", 10, {_x:105, _y: 60});
holder.attachMovie("starburst2", "starburst2_mc", 9, {_x: 498, _y: 18});
holder.attachMovie("starburst3", "starburst3_mc", 8, {_x: 469, _y: 54});
holder.attachMovie("starburst1", "starburst1vn_mc", 7, {_x: 32, _y: 60});
holder.attachMovie("starburst2", "starburst2vn_mc", 6, {_x: 180, _y: 45});
holder.attachMovie("starburst3", "starburst3vn_mc", 5, {_x: 170, _y: 72});

new Tween(holder.kathyImage_mc, "_alpha", easeIn, 0, 100, 3, true);
new Tween(holder.kathyImage_mc, "_scale", easeOut, 0, 100, 3, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst4_mc, "_rotate", easeOut, 0, 1020, 2, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst4_mc, "_alpha", easeOut, 100, 0, 3, true);
new Tween(holder.shouldShe_mc, "_alpha", easeOut, 0, 100, 4, true);
new Tween(holder.shouldShe_mc, "_alpha", easeOut, 100, 0, 4, true);
new Tween(holder.frame1_mc, "_alpha", easeOut, 0, 100, 3, true);
new Tween(holder.frame1_mc, "_alpha", easeOut, 100, 0, 3, true);
new Tween(holder.frame2_mc, "_alpha", easeOut, 0, 100, 3, true);
new Tween(holder.frame2_mc, "_alpha", easeOut, 100, 0, 2, true);
new Tween(holder.frame3_mc, "_alpha", easeOut, 0, 100, 3, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst1_mc, "_alpha", easeOut, 0, 100, 1.5, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst1_mc, "_rotate", easeOut, 0, 1020, 4, true);
//want this one to be delayed by 6 seconds
//new Tween(holder.starburst1_mc, "_rotate", easeOut, 0, 1020, 4, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst2_mc, "_alpha", easeIn, 0, 100, .5, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst2_mc, "_rotate", easeOut, 0, 1420, 3, true);
//want this one to be delayed by 11 seconds
//new Tween(holder.starburst2_mc, "_rotate", easeOut, 0, 1420, 3, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst3_mc, "_alpha", easeIn, 0, 100, 2, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst3_mc, "_rotate", easeOut, 0, 1620, 3, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst1vn_mc, "_alpha", easeIn, 0, 100, 2, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst1vn_mc, "_rotate", easeOut, 0, 1620, 10, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst2vn_mc, "_alpha", easeIn, 0, 100, 2, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst2vn_mc, "_rotate", easeOut, 0, 1620, 10, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst3vn_mc, "_alpha", easeIn, 0, 100, 1, true);
new Tween(holder.starburst3n_mc, "_rotate", easeOut, 0, -1620, 6, true);

holder.frame3_mc.onRelease = function () {
getURL("http://www.theredlevel.com", "_self");
}
}

How Do I Add Delay?
ActionScript Code:
red.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, redhit);

function redhit(event:MouseEvent):void {
red.gotoAndPlay("redCLICK");
green.gotoAndPlay("greenOFF");
blue.gotoAndPlay("blueOFF");

}

How do i add a delay between these commands so that they dont go off at the same time when i click the button?

Get Url Delay
How can I delay getting the url by about 5 seconds to allow the flassh movie to completely finish.
TY
BC
m35bob

How Can I Delay?
Do you know how I can delay or slow down the transition to the next frame without manually stretching the frames on the timeline? How should I write my actionscript in order to do that? Thanks in advance!

Delay
i need to have a 5-10 second delay between two actions. this way flash will wait 5-10 seconds before sending information and causeing the page to refresh, any help?

Delay..
I'm needing to place small delays into my actionscript.

I'm loading a MC onto the screen.. I only want it to be there for about
1/2 sec, then remove it, placing it to another random part of the screen.

Obviously, my code is something to this extent.. (not the actual code,
this is just a demo I typed up really fast)

for (i:Number=1; i<20; i++) {
_root.stage.attachMovie("Cards", "Card"+cardMovNum, 0+cardMovNum)
_root.stage["Card"+cardMovNum]._x = Math.random();
_root.stage["Card"+cardMovNum]._y = Math.random();
_root.stage["Card"+cardMovNum].removeMovieClip();
}

I'm thinking about writing some kind of function then add it into this
code..

function wait():Void {
for (h:Number=0; h<1000; h++) {
for (j:Number=0; j<1000; j++) {
}
}
};

Any tips on giving me a pause function?

Thanks

-Bill

Delay Getting URL
before my url loads to let the flash intro completes

AS3 Delay
I'm wanting to time delay a portion of my script with a line in the script? anyone know howto and might you please paste a copy of the script and an explaination of how it is working?

MC DElay
Movieclip delay ?
Hi Flashers

IN My main scene 1 have a movieclip that I want to loop (play several times), with a 10 second delay each times.

Right Now I have put 30 empty frames in the beginning of the movieclip and no stop script. But I believe there is a actionscript line I can use instead and get rid of these emty frames ?

And where do I put the code ?

Delay Help Please...
i have 9 movieclips and are all not visible when the movie loads.
what i want to happen is when i click a button, it will make the movieclips visible one at a time with a half second delay in between...i've trie using setInterval and it wont work. i would really be thankful for any help...

here is the code im using:

Code:

//inside frame1:

Array.prototype.shuffle=function(){

for(i=0;i<this.length;i++){

var tmp=this[i];

var randomNum=random(this.length);

this[i]=this[randomNum];

this[randomNum]=tmp;

}

}

//inside button:

on (release){

arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9];

arr.shuffle();

for (x=0;x<9;x++)

{

num1 = arr[x];

id = setInterval(disp7,500,num1);

}

function disp7(num:Number) {

clearInterval(id);

if (num == 1) {

face.a1._visible = true;

}

else if (num == 2) {

face.a2._visible = true;

}

else if (num == 3) {

face.a3._visible = true;

}

else if (num == 4) {

face.a4._visible = true;

}

else if (num == 5) {

face.a5._visible = true;

}

else if (num == 6) {

face.b5._visible = true;

}

else if (num == 7) {

face.c4._visible = true;

}

else if (num == 8) {

face.d3._visible = true;

}

else if (num == 9) {

face.e3._visible = true;

}

}

}

Delay?
for a delay effect on the timeline is it just

Code:
im to tired to think, how is this done
thankx all

i need it to delay for like 1 sec, and just dont wnat to add more to the timeline

Delay
so i have a whole bunch of different clips with the same code. there's a brief intro, in which the clips fall on the screen. (they're animated on their _parent timeline.)

they have event handlers such as onRollOver and onMouseDown, etc. but i don't want any of this functionality to be available until after they finish their intro. sorta like i want to "enabled=false" them until the intro's done, but they have more than just button handlers.

i guess one option is to make the animated bits just graphic symbols and then swap in the movieclips. that seems a bit hackneyed. anyone got any other ideas?

thx
depth

MP3 2 Sec. Delay
How do I create a function that will cause a 2 second delay between playing songs in Lee's MP3 player tutorial? I tried a for loop, but the computer is so fast, it counts the loop instantly.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.
-CK