Change visiblity upon clicking a button

programming flash
1

I have a mc tracking as a button with a working on(release) statement.

Within the on release statement is this code that doesn’t work for me:

_root.playbtn.pause_mc._visible = true;
_root.playbtn.play_mc._visible = true;

The first layer of the button has a mc with instance called play_mc
And the second layer of the button with a mc instance called pause_mc

The button instance on the stage is called playbtn.

thanks for your help

2

Use the same movie clip for both buttons. Place each button picture on a different frame in the movie clip timeline. Then place the stop(); command in each frame, then use this code in the main timeline:

playbtn.onRelease = function()    {
    this.play();
}

this should fix your problem

3

thanks, i just noticed a very weird problem.

I created a new blank movie
Imported two images
Created a new mc
put image 1 as frame 1 with stop(); in the frame
put image 2 as frame 2 with stop(); in the frame
dropped the new symbol on my stage and set it as a button
when I run the movie, and put my mouseover the button, it acts like i have some mouseover action and changes frames

This is where I was going to use your code, but couldn’t get that far because of this problem.

its really odd.

4

could you upload your flash file?

5

thanks

this is just the stupid button that I was having problems with.

6

Here you go - just leave your movieclip as a movieclip (instead of a button) and all is well.

7

That works out perfectly thank you!

I didn’t realize that non buttons can have onrelease

8

You’re welcome, and I personally would recommend to never use buttons. Back in Flash 4 you had to, but since then you’re better off using movieClips for everything. Well, that’s my personally choice anyway :slight_smile: