There is an undocumented function in Flash that does that: setTimeout. It works very similar to setInterval.
You can find out how to use it at http://www.flashguru.co.uk/flash-8-settimeout/

By the way, you should use dynamic arguments. The way you send arguments to the callback function is not very elegant, and it limits the amount of arguments to send. Take a look to this:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary369.html

Cheers

Or you could use:
callback(a.slice(2, a.length));

to pass as many arguments as needed

@Rasmus, true enough. Good thanking.

Flash already has this:

setTimeout(scope, “function”, milliseconds, param1, param2, etc);

@Andy, you sure that isn’t a custom class you wrote? setTimeout isn’t in the help files and the following code doesn’t do anything:

setTimeout(this, CB, 100, “hi”);

function CB(arg:String):Void {
trace(arg);
}

setTimeout is an undocumented function introduced in Flash 8. For more info see this post from Flashguru: http://www.flashguru.co.uk/flash-8-settimeout/

@Rasmus, wonderful, thanks for pointing this out. The problem with the code above is that here is no ‘scope’ parameter. So this works as expected.

setTimeout(CB, 1000, “hi”);

function CB(s:String):Void {
trace(s);
}

did you try _global.setTimeout(CB, 1000, “hi”); ?

i use that when i need a method call to wait

:)

sorry i forgot the scope:

(inside a class)

timerInterval = _global.setTimeout(this, “functionName”, 100);

@wolfito, you know, I’ve never really used _global before. I think static classes do the same thing for me.

By the way, wicked cool sight you have. I can’t read it but I love the detail you put into it. Something as simple as making the text coast to a stop when scrolling is a very sweet effect and looks quite professional. Kudos.