Delay Particle Start

[Taylor]

Is there a simple way to delay when the particle emitter begins? For
example, if I want the fireworks to begin at frame 200.

I've tried a few ideas but am not really getting anywhere.

Cheers,
Taylor.

[CJ Cat (Allen Chou)]

One easy to do that is to make use of the Emitter.active property. If
the property is set to false, the emitter stops creating particles,
regardless of the assigned clock; however, note that existing
particles are still being updated in each emitter step. You can assign
a clock to the emitter, and set the emitter's active property to
false. Next, use a timer or anything you like to count for 200 frames,
and then reset the emitter's active property back to true. This shall
delay the particle emission for 200 frames.

[Taylor]

Great, thanks mate. Worked a treat.

After setting emitter.active to false - here is the timer I used to
kick things off (for anyone interested):

//delay
var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000,5);
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, timerListener);
function timerListener (e:TimerEvent):void{
trace("Timer is Triggered");
}
myTimer.start();

myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, timerDone);
function timerDone(e:TimerEvent):void{
trace("Timer finishing!");
myTimer.stop();
emitter.active = true;
}

Thanks again.