FLASH: Need a "timer" to pause a movie for a few seconds

[P-H]

> Hello there ! I'm rather new in here (in fact I'm 
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>     currently using an evaluation copy of Flash 4 - which I find tremendously 
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>     interesting but I quite hardly master ! ;o)))
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> I'd like to be 
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>     able to pause a movie between scenes (with no input from the surfer => no 
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>     button/action/event) for a while superior to what can be achieved with the 
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>     "while/loop" statement (I understand it's wayyyy too 
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>     fast).
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> Any hint regarding this will be welcome - and source 
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>     code a blessing ! :o))))
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> P-H Steyt
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> P.S. : Since it 
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>     seems a quite ordinary  and "classic" question, I looked up 
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>     in several databases but did not manage to find a solution - but then again, 
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>     I'm really a beginner in this... Sorry for the possible redundancy 
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> !