Halting Timer() in order to show diffrent data

Question

I I wrote this little script shown below, that shows images from an array and displays them one by one on the screen. Now i have been trying to implement how to display another screen perhaps while halting all the action on the main screen and display a movie script.
I was thinking that displaying it on the second Scene would be an ideal solution but it does not seem plauisble. I would llike to display the movie cllip on the same screen then using actionscipt, but with out having all the rest of the code play.
So when the function
displayCars() gets called after the time had been calculated it should halt all the timers and clear the screen and then output a movieclip
After 10s i would like to restart all the action so it could continue again.
any ideas on how to halt, clear and restart this stuff
Thanks
My Attempt
import fl.transitions.*;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName;
//Setting up //with date params
var todayDate:Date = new Date();
//1st Timer initializing the | First Timer |
var delayCall:Number = 1000;
var repeatCall:int = 1;
var firstTimer:Timer = new Timer(delayCall, repeatCall);
firstTimer.start();
//2st Timer initializing the | Second Timer |
var del:Number = 1000;
var rep:int = 1;
var secondTimer:Timer = new Timer(del, rep);
//Setting for the date diffrence
var dtDate1:Date = new Date();
var dtDate2:Date = new Date(2009, 6, 8, 12, 47);
var leftTime:Number = dtDate2.getTime() - dtDate1.getTime();
var delay:Number = Math.floor(Math.abs(leftTime));
var repeat:int = 1;
var time1:Timer = new Timer(delay, repeat);
time1.start();
time1.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, displayCars);
//defining the beverage values
var carNames:Array = ["bmw", "ferrari", "lamborghin", "mercedes"];
var nextCar:Number;
//Movie Clip + Transition releated variables
var mc:*;
var myTween:Tween;
var myPhoto:TransitionManager;
//Event Time Listeners
firstTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, bringIt);
nextCar = 0;
function displayCars(event:TimerEvent):void
gotoAndStop(1, "Scene 2");
function bringIt(event:TimerEvent):* {
firstTimer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, bringIt);
var classRef:Class = getDefinitionByName(carNames[nextCar]) as Class;
mc = new classRef();
mc.y = 35;
addChildAt(mc, 0);
myTween = new Tween(mc, "x", Elastic.easeOut, 0, 200, 3, true);
myTween.addEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, takeIt);
return mc;
function takeIt(event:TweenEvent):void
myTween.removeEventListener(TweenEvent.MOTION_FINISH, takeIt);
secondTimer.start();
secondTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, outTween);
function outTween(event:TimerEvent):void
secondTimer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, outTween);
myPhoto = new TransitionManager(mc);
myPhoto.startTransition({type:Photo, direction:Transition.OUT, duration:4, easing:None.easeNone});
myPhoto.addEventListener("allTransitionsOutDone", resetValues);
function resetValues(event:Event):void
myPhoto.removeEventListener("allTransitionsOutDone", resetValues);
removeChild(mc);
nextCar++;
secondTimer.reset();
firstTimer.start();
firstTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, bringIt);
if( nextCar == carNames.length)
    nextCar = 0;

Answer 1

Hi Chirs,
From your desription, you want to createa a chart to show all the months on the chart no matter it has data on that month or not, rigth? If in this case, we can create an other dataset to show all the month, and then use the lookup function to get the month
QTY. The steps below are for you reference.
Create an other dataset use the query below.
DECLARE @TMP TABLE (Month nvarchar(20),QTY INT)
INSERT @TMP SELECT 'Jan',0
INSERT @TMP SELECT 'Feb',0
INSERT @TMP SELECT 'Mar',0
INSERT @TMP SELECT 'Apr',0
INSERT @TMP SELECT 'Mat',0
INSERT @TMP SELECT 'Jun',0
INSERT @TMP SELECT 'Jul',0
INSERT @TMP SELECT 'Aug',0
INSERT @TMP SELECT 'Sep',0
INSERT @TMP SELECT 'Oct',0
INSERT @TMP SELECT 'Nov',0
INSERT @TMP SELECT 'Dec',0
SELECT * FROM @TMP
Drag [Month] filed to Category Groups and drag [QTY] field to Values.
Then change the of [QTY] to:
=Lookup(Fields!Month.Value,Fields!Month.Value,Fields!QTY.Value,"DataSet1")
The report looks liek below.
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
Regards,
Charlie Liao
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