timer and mouse event interaction

[asest]

I would like a 'MouseOver' event to trigger a timer...

then once the designated time is up the code will instruct to 'GotoAndPlay' the 2nd part of the MC. (so the MC will play from a designated frame - no probs there.)

I know almost nothing about timer events and believe this is probably extremely easy to do; it's just that I don't know the code required.

I also know that a simple, but long way round, way of doing it would be to simply add a set of 'still' frames amounting to a certain amount of time. I am very curious about using timers though.

Any help will be most appreciated,

thanks

Aaron

[lewi-p]

Hi,

You can setup some simple MouseEvent functions inside the MovieClip like;

stop();



var secondsToPause:Number = 2;



var timer = new Timer(secondsToPause * 1000, 1);

timer.addEventListener("timer", onTimerComplete);



this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, onOver);

this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, onOut);



function onOver($event:MouseEvent):void

{

    this.gotoAndStop("pause");

    timer.start();

}



function onOut($event:MouseEvent):void

{

    this.gotoAndStop("up");

    timer.stop();

}



function onTimerComplete($event:TimerEvent):void

{

    this.gotoAndPlay("play");

}

I've attached an example to show you how to build the MovieClips, hope this helps!

lewi-p

[asest]

that works a treat thank you.