How do I go frame to frame after a few seconds?

Question

Hello,
I'm new here so forgive any mistakes or lack of knowledge.
(Brief history: I have programmed in Pascal before, currently learning Java and Flash)
So my question is i want to be able to move from frame to frame after X amount of seconds. I have searched online for coding on how to do this with the action script and managed to get the first frame working. The problem occurs with my 5th frame as frame 1 goes to frame 5 in 5 seconds but when i want frame 5 to go to frame 10 in 10 seconds it decides not to work.
Below is the code i used in order to accomplish the first frame:
stop();
var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(5000, 1);
          myTimer.start();
    myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, function(e:TimerEvent)
        play();
If there is a problem with the code or if there is an alternative way for better practice please do let me know.
My 5th frame code:
stop();
var myTimer2:Timer = new Timer(5000, 1);
  myTimer2.start();
    myTimer2.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, function(e:TimerEvent)
        play();
Thanks in advance. If anyone is struggling to understand my question, apologies because i am really bad when it comes to structuring sentences.

Answer 1

You should not have to create more than one timer for this.  Also, you should not be building the event handler function into the listener, keep it as a separate function.
In frame 1 you could have...
     stop();
     var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(5000, 1);
     myTimer.start();
     myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, moveOn);
     function moveOn(e:TimerEvent):void {
           play();
and all you would need in frame 5 would be....
     stop();
     myTimer.start();