One Frame Programming

[serthigh]

Hi everyone. I'm working on a quiz, but I need some help with some programming. There is this frame I'm trying to program, but I can't get it to work. What I want to do is to have this one frame wait a couple of seconds and then proceed to the next frame. In other words, pause the frame for a certain time. How can I do this? Here's my code that I have so far. This is AS 3.0, CS3 Professional.
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stop();
var i:Number = 0;

while(i<5000) {
gotoAndStop(350);
i++;
a100.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_D OWN,
aa100);
function aa100(event:MouseEvent):void {
gotoAndStop(340);
}
}

gotoAndStop(351);
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There are no errors in this simple program. Assume that the packages and imports are correct as follows.

[kylelyk]

I'm kind of new to as3 but...
is it ok to have an event function inside a while function?
i never tried it before in as2 or as3, but it seems kind of unnecessary to put it in there anyway.

[UknownXL]

Ive never used as3 but maybe you need to add
on EnterFrame = function (){
at the top. So it knows its a function.

[onezerothrice]

K, lotta things wrong with this from an OOP perspective, but we'll get them solved. :)

stop();
var timer:Timer = new Timer(1000, 1);  // First parameter milliseconds, the second repeats

a100.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onA100MouseDown);

timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, onTimerComplete);
timer.start();

function onTimerComplete(event:TimerEvent):void
{
     timer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, onTimerComplete);
     a100.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onA100MouseDown);
     gotoAndStop(351);
}

function onA100MouseDown(event:MouseEvent):void
{
     timer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, onTimerComplete);
     a100.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, onA100MouseDown);
     gotoAndStop(340);
}

[serthigh]

I'll go ahead and try these tips. Thanks for your help guys. I'll let you know on the status to see if it works or not.

[ShirkDeio]

All it looks like your code is doing is setting an event handler 5000 times in one frame :\

[serthigh]

Hey it works now. Thanks onezerothrice for the huge help that you gave me, as well as the others who helped contribute to my coding as well. Now I can move on to the next step. =)