Active/Inactive buttons

Hi guys

pretty easy question i guess, but i’m clueless what is the best solution for it.
also would like to say I’m pretty new in flash actionscript…

I got a standard navigation with a horizontal meny with 5 links.

home | products | about | contact | events

they are all made with standard buttons, with “Up”, “Over”, “Down” in different colors and assigned the instance names:

mHome_btn
mProducts_btn
mContact_btn
mEvents_btn
mAbout_btn

At the moment there is no way to see what meny is active, since all the buttons are in the default state “Up”

I would like to find good solution using actionscript to control the different states (up,over,down) the buttons have, in my case it would be pretty much be “up” and “down”.

So is there any good way to controll this with actionscript, or do I have to find another solution? and what would that be? this is not a real code, just made up, but it pretty much explains what I would like to accomplish.

on Release.mHome_btn set mHome_btn = active(“Down”) and otherButtons inactive (“Up”

where otherButtons = mProducts_btn, mContact_btn , mEvents_btn,
mAbout_btn

home | products | about | contact | events <- home is active, the rest inactive
home | products | about | contact | events <- contact is active, the rest inactive

i think you guys understand…

I hope you guys understand what I would like to accompish, thx in advance and sorry for my noobness.

/best regards hixen