Aha! I see what you’re thinking (I think!). Nah, you’re not being thick … you’re just interpreting the concept of “trigger this function once” in a different way.

When the playhead enters the frame in which this code appears — and this is true of any and every time the playhead enters this frame — Flash obeys the instructions and performs timer.start();, which means the event handler associated with the timer instance is going to do its thing … once.

If you were to replace that 1 with a 2, the TimerEvent.TIMER handler would perform its duties twice (following two 2-second delays). If 3, then thrice (following three 2-second delays). 0 repeats forever.

Does that nail it?

Glad to hear it!

To James …

You’re welcome.

Thanks Again,
Rick

Glad to help!

This particular blog entry is about pausing movie clip timelines, but I do have a related tutorial on this blog for an AS2 scrubber for FLVs. I do plan to update it to AS3 sooner or later, but for the time being, at least, it may give you ideas on how to proceed in your conversion.

How to Build a Flash Video (FLV) Progress Bar (Part 2)

Thanks

J.

Assuming a button with the instance name myButton, you could do this:

stop();

var timer:Timer = new Timer(2000, 1);
timer.addEventListener(
  TimerEvent.TIMER,
  function(evt:TimerEvent):void {
    navigateToURL(new URLRequest("http://www.domain.com/"));
  }
);

myButton.addEventListener(
  MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,
  function(evt:MouseEvent):void {
    timer.start();
  }
);

This example is very close to what’s shown in the original article, only the start() method is called inside the MOUSE_UP handler. (Note that the AS3 version of getURL() is navigateToURL(), which requires an instance of the URLRequest class, rather than just a string).