melee attacks

hello

am making a hack n slash game and i want to know how to create a string of combos when i rapidly tap my attack button.

when i tap the button the character will do an animation,tap it again another animation, tap one more time another animation.the player must finish the animation before moving to the next animation and when ever i tap the button it will pick any of the animation for the attack combo.

have a variable that turn to zero if it hasnt had an attack in ? time

each attack adds one to variable

for the animation an finished

have a variable that turn to zero if it hasnt had an attack in ? time

each attack adds one to variable

for the animation an finished

thanks for the Intel.but am rookie :P is there a way you could make a capx and demo,then I will modify.thank you very much in advance.