Pausing the timeline on Press

Hi, I found many similar topics, but nothing like this. For a
project I am working on I want to be able to click on a movieclip
and pause the _root timeline until another movie clip is pressed
which will resume playing the movie. I was hoping this would be as
simple as a Stop and PLay function but i know its much more
complex. Could someone please help me with this code. It would be
greatly appreaciated. AS2 please as I am not accustom to AS3 and
the project is AS2.
Thanks alot,

Actually, it's not much more complex than you are hoping.
What have you tried?

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You have received 40 or so views in less than an hour. Sometimes it takes days for other suers to drop by and your post is arriving during the start of a long holiday weekend in the Sates so it might not be till next week befor someone who really knows how to answer this shows up. Your post is being viewed by people who want to know if you are serious but have no help to offer. Woudl you rather they posted nonsense? I have never had AE jumpt back to the start of the timeline and posting that information does not help you. I can assume you have a some sort of pref incorrectly set or your keyboard has been tweaked at the OS level to interpret a spacebar in AE as a Media Start command.
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I want to be able to pause a movies timeline for 3 seconds,
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Hi,
Pausing the main timeline
The key to this project is understanding Flash’s wrist
watch. If you have an analog wrist
watch, the minutes are marked around the dial and the second
hand ticks around the dial.
Flash doesn’t have a second hand, it has a millisecond
hand; and the watch face is not
divided into minutes or seconds—there are 1,000 little
division marks.
Instead of a millisecond, think about a mouse click. There
are actually two things involved
in that event. There is the event in which the mouse button
is down and the event in which
the mouse button is up. How fast that happens is dependent on
the amount of time you
use to press and release the button. In Flash, we can capture
that small amount of time and
turn it into an eternity if we so choose. Same thing when you
let go of the button. When it
comes to working with time in Flash, the unit of measure is
the millisecond, and we can
turn a millisecond into an eternity (which, incidentally, is
not a good idea).
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“When you hit this point on the timeline,
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millisecond and doing what
needs to be done.” Here’s how:
1. Open the PauseTimeline.fla file. If you scrub the playhead
across the timeline,
the box, thanks to the tween, gets bigger.
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Actions panel.
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this.stop();
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place to get it back in motion.
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var timelinePause:Timer = new Timer(2000, 1);
timelinePause.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER,
timerHandler);
timelinePause.start();
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how often to wait around for
that 2 seconds. The 1 means “only wait for it
once.”
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again (see Figure 4-21).
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for 2 seconds, and then
continue to grow.
this.stop();
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timerHandler);
timelinePause.start();
function timerHandler(evt:Object):void{
this.play();
Hope this helps you out ;)
Kind Regards,
Boxing Boom

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