Active State Buttons (AS 3.0)

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Hello guys. I’ve been attaining help with buttons and movieclips here, and I got awesome code from cbeech. Now, I need a little help my making my button code modular.

The buttons code I’m trying to write will keep a button in the active state when pressed, and if any other buttons are in the active state, they will close up…Im posting alink to a flash file of the effect i want in actionscript 2.0 . However, I need the effect/code in actionscript 3.0. and I need it to be modular where I can easily add or remove buttons to my heart is content.

Put more clearly, when a user rolls over a button, I want the button to play the “open” frame in the button/movieclip. When the users rolls off the button, the button/movieclip goes the “close” frame in that button/movieclip. If the user presses the button, the button/movieclip plays the “open” frame and will stop at the stop (action) to stay in the active state, and if there are any other buttons open, they should go their respective “close” frame and play from there. Here’s my starting code. please bear with me; Im just migrating from 2.0:

stop();

homes.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, onRollover);
homes.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, onRollout);
homes.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClicked);

cars.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, onRollover);
cars.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, onRollout);
cars.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClicked);

assets.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, onRollover);
assets.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, onRollout);
assets.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, buttonClicked);

function onRollover(e:MouseEvent):void
{
e.target.gotoAndPlay(“open”);
e.target.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, onRollover);
e.target.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, onRollout);
}

function onRollout(e:MouseEvent):void
{
e.target.gotoAndPlay(“close”);
e.target.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, onRollout);

}

function buttonClicked (e:MouseEvent):void
{

if (e.target == homes)
{
homes.gotoAndPlay(“open”);
homes.buttonMode = false;
closeIfOpen();
//break;
}
if (e.target == cars)
{
cars.gotoAndPlay(“open”);
cars.buttonMode = false;
closeIfOpen();

//break;
}
if (e.target == assets)
{
assets.gotoAndPlay(“open”);
assets.buttonMode = false;
closeIfOpen();

//break;
}

}

function closeIfOpen(e:MouseEvent): void
{

    if(e.target !=homes && homes.currentLabel != "athome")
    {
        homes.gotoAndPlay("close");
        homes.buttonMode = true;
    }
    if(e.target !=cars && cars.currentLabel != "athome")
    {
        cars.gotoAndPlay("close");
        cars.buttonMode = true;
    }
    if(e.target !=assets && assets.currentLabel != "athome")
    {
        assets.gotoAndPlay("close");
        assets.buttonMode = true;
    }

}

clearly, I want the buttons to work like the ones in this flash file:

Thanks for your time…

x lisa x