How to make the animation repeat after some time?

Question

ActionScript

My movie clip has a fade in animation
I used the code snippet provided by Adobe Animate

var movieClip_4_FadeInCbk = fl_FadeSymbolIn_4.bind(this);
this.addEventListener('tick', movieClip_4_FadeInCbk);
this.movieClip_4.alpha = 0;

function fl_FadeSymbolIn_4()
{
  this.movieClip_4.alpha += 0.06;
  if(this.movieClip_4.alpha >= 1)
  {
    this.removeEventListener('tick', movieClip_4_FadeInCbk);
  }
}

After the movie clip appears, the animation no longer repeats. How can I make the animation repeat after 5 seconds, for example?

Answer 1

Use flash.utils.setTimeout() to run the code after the specified time. Use the reinitialize "tick" listener to start the animation (changing the alpha, to be exact), and set the alpha to 0 to start the spawn again.