Delay Before Playing An Action
It may be super simple but it's 4 am and I'm almost asleep . What I need is an actionscript code that will delay another action from happening x seconds.
For example:
I want to load a movie clip let's call it load1_mc and then after load1_mc loads I input a delay command that will wait x seconds before loading load2_mc and so on.
onEnterFrame
_parent.load1_mc.loadMovie("test.swf");
*Delay Function/Command Here*
_parent.load2_mc.loadMovie("test2.swf");
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I'm almost sure there must be a simple way of doing it, but I just can't think of one now. Maybe the setInterval() instruction... I dunno. The idea is for loading mc's like the example above or any other "actions" I can think off without relying on frames.
Any help will be appreciated.
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Posted on: 01-24-2007, 03:28 AM
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