Flash AS3, How to pause a loop for seconds - loops

Question

I have this AS3 script (it works fine), I just want to make the loop to pause for seconds each time then it can continue looping. Like if I like it to stop for Milliseconds.Thanks
var myText:String;
var counter:int = 0;
var format : TextFormat = new TextFormat();
format.size = 16;
format.font = "Verdana";
format.bold = true;
format.color = 0x000000;
var textField : TextField = new TextField();
textField.width = 200;
textField.height = 50;
textField.selectable = false;
textField.wordWrap = true;
textField.defaultTextFormat = format;
textField.x = textField.y =0;
addChild(textField);
var textLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(new URLRequest("text.txt"));
textLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, function(e:Event){initText(e.target.data);});
function initText(string:String):void{
myText = string;
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, writeText);
}
function writeText(e:Event):void{
if (counter <= myText.length){
textField.text = myText.substr(0,counter);
counter++;
/*What I can put here to make it pause for a while*/
}
else{
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,writeText);
}
}

Answer 1

Your code is fine, you need to tweak it a little bit.
function initText(string:String):void
{
myText = string;
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, writeText);
}
// Variable to keep the next print time in milliseconds.
var nextPrint:int;
function writeText(e:Event):void
{
// Function getTimer() returns time in milliseconds since app start.
// Skip this frame if time is not right.
if (getTimer() < nextPrint) return;
// Variable nextPrint is initially 0 so the first char will print immediately.
if (counter <= myText.length)
{
textField.text = myText.substr(0, counter);
counter++;
/*What I can put here to make it pause for a while*/
// Print next character in ~100 ms.
nextPrint = getTimer() + 100;
}
else
{
removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, writeText);
}
}