Buttons, can they affect layers?

1

Can i make a button, when pressed, cause a layer to become visible or invisible?
If so, how?

thanks

2

What you are thinking of I don’t believe is possible, but I think I have an alternate solution. If possible take everything in the layer that you want to be invisble, convert the contents of that layer to a movieclip. Then the code is simple.

on(release)
_root.layerClip._visible = false

This should help and it allows you to make the movieclip visible or invisible when every you want or after certain conditions are met.

Kyle

3

No need to transform everything into a movie clip. Just give everything you want to turn invisible an instance name, and set them _visible = 0 ;

pom :asian:

4

Oops, your right Ilyaslamasse I keep forgeting about Flash Mx and its ability to give everything an instance name. I guess I was still in Flash 5 mode when I posted. Thanks that helped the both of us I think.

Kyle

5

I have two background bitmaps turned into movieclips (Background1, Background2)

They are on 2 seperate layers. I then have a buttons with this code:

on(release) {
Background2._visible = false;
}

Why doesn’t Background2 hide, so I can see Background1 on the layer beneath?

I even tried giving Background2 the instance name Backg2 and changing the code to:
on(release) {
Backg2._visible = false;
}

Neither works. What am I overlooking?

Thanks

RR