I cant seem to get my buttons to disable/enable when i use button components
What I need is to disable all the buttons for a certain number of frames …
I tried onPress to disable and then on say frame 20 of a loaded swf i set the desired buttons to enable … right ? I thought so but no matter what I do it does not work … I checked my paths and all seem correct … and I cant seem the disable these buttons whatsoever not even from the main timeline … what am I doing wrong? so is there something special about these components that make me not use the enable var. ?
Please any help would be great !!!
where’s the button code? in the button? if you put the buttonName.onPress() only on frame 20 (or whatever) it will work, just make sure you don’t have ANY code attached to the button itself… more to the point… why display a button that won’t work? might just make it’s visibility false, until you want it to appear…
yeah there is code on the button itself inside the component that calls out to the funcitons set on the main timeline … so I guess what needs to be done is to create a function that is called that would disable the buttons for a set amount of time …
"why display a button that won’t work?"
I only want them to disable while external content loads and unloads because as is if you press a button during a transition it will activate that button without acutally loading that content.
You want to disable the link (hand) in the button u can use the enable property of the button something like this
_root.mybutton.enabled = false;
