Pausing execution of code in a for loop between each loop. Howto?

[ChillDown]

I have a for loop which runs x amount of times and between each loop i'd like to implement a small pause of execution of the code. How would i do that? Can something like that only be done using a timer? If so how would i go about doing that and what things should i import? (Trying to do this in a class)
Though i'm wondering if there's an easier way than timers to be able to do something like that, like C's sleep() function for example.

[Dazzer]

Don't forget that Flash is a Frame based platform... so there is no such thing as Sleep. It enters a new frame all the time.

Hence, you have to settle for the Timer class. It really isn't that difficult. The only thing is that instead of a for loop you will be using a Timer only (implementing a pause in the for loop would mean that flash cannot execute any other code until the forloop is complete)

The timer class is

flash.utils.Timer;

Read documentation for usage.

[springframework]

actionscript isn't multithreaded, so if a sleep call existed it would just pause the whole program from doing anything. don't try to replicate a sleep call with a while loop.


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