Basically, I want to know if there is a timer command that lets me do something after a certain amount of time has passed. I.e, i click a button, then after 5 seconds or so a movie clip plays.

help is appreciated, ty

Normally these things are dealt with intervals and what not to create a timer.

But perhaps this might be easier, Flash is done in frames per second.

So for instance 30 frames persecond would mean obviously for every 30 frames one second has past.

So lets say we have a variable called "timer" all we would have to do is have it increment by (1/30)
The ratio of how many frames per second, to get a reliable well timer.

Now all you have to do is for a command to be executing once it reaches five seconds.

An easy to create and simple timer.