Adding delay to actions

[luekil]

Hi everyone, I am making a platformer game and I would be really thankful if someone could tell me how to add a delay to the attack button of the character. Right now you are able to leave the button pressed and the character stays on the attacking animation and you can simply do that to destroy everything, so at least having to press again to make the attack animation happen again would also be perfect.

Thanks for your time and sorry for such probably simple question....

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[adBuryD]

Hi
you can use set interval for an action to be performed every defined interval. or create a number var, increment it and say onenterframe if the var == 3,6,9 and so on perform the action.
but i dont think this is how you want the script to be so if you could post the part of onpress of the movieclip and function it call i might be able to help

[luekil]

Well what I want to add the delay to is this:

if (Key.isDown(65)){
this.gotoAndStop("attack");

Dunno if thats what you meant that I posted or you need more info .
And thanks for your reply

[Swooter]

Try this code:

var $interval = 500; // 0.5 seconds
var $timer = 0;
var $canShoot = true;

if (Key.isDown(65)) {
  if ( $canShoot ) {
    this.gotoAndStop("attack");
    $canShoot = false;

    clearTimeout($timer);
    $timer = setTimeout(function() {
      $canShoot = true;
    }, $interval);
  }
}