Controlling movieclips acting as buttons

programming flash
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Ok, so i’ve got a little dilemma with one of my projects again

I made a nav bar which has 5 movieclips acting as buttons.
I have them with a Rollover, Rollout, and Click stage.

Now the click stage is the trickiest… I want to “disable” the button after it has been clicked and have it stop at the very last frame of the movieclip it’s in.

How can I achieve this?

Here’s the code that was optimized using Arrays and If statements so that the code was modular and was able to compute similar functions for different buttons.

 
/////// ARRAYS ///////////////////////////////////

// 01. ARRAY STRUCTURE
    var arrayContent:Array = new Array(content1_mc,content2_mc,content3_mc,content4_mc,    
    content5_mc);
    var arrayBarButtons:Array = new Array(bar1_mc,bar2_mc,bar3_mc,bar4_mc,bar5_mc);

/////// TEXT FIELDS ///////////////////////////////////

    // 02. TEXT FIELDS
        // 02A. BAR BUTTON TEXT
            bar1_mc.barButton_mc.barButton_text.text = "News & Info";
            bar2_mc.barButton_mc.barButton_text.text = "Work";
            bar3_mc.barButton_mc.barButton_text.text = "About";
            bar4_mc.barButton_mc.barButton_text.text = "Contact";
            bar5_mc.barButton_mc.barButton_text.text = "Links";
        // 02B. LAST UPDATED TEXT
            content1_mc.lastUpdated_text.text = "Last Updated: 08.15.2008";
            content2_mc.lastUpdated_text.text = "Last Updated: 08.10.2008";
            content5_mc.lastUpdated_text.text = "Last Updated: 08.15.2008";

/////// FUNCTIONS ///////////////////////////////////
        
    // 03. ROLL IN FUNCTION
    function stateRollIn(evt:MouseEvent):void
        {
        evt.currentTarget.gotoAndPlay("over");
    }
    
    // 04. ROLL OUT FUNCTION
    function stateRollOut(evt:MouseEvent):void
    {
    evt.currentTarget.gotoAndPlay("out"); 
    }
    
    // 05. CLICK FUNCTION
    function stateClick(evt:MouseEvent):void
    {
        evt.currentTarget.gotoAndPlay("down");
        trace(evt.target.name);
        
        clearContent();
        
        var count:Number = arrayBarButtons.length;
        var index:Number;
        
        for(var i:Number = 0;i<count;i++){
        if(evt.target.name == arrayBarButtons*.name){
            index = i;
            }
        }
        
        arrayContent[index].visible = true;
    }

    // 06. CLEAR CONTENT FUNCTION
            // 06A. CLEAR CONTENT (ALL)
                function clearContent():void{
                    content1_mc.visible = false;
                    content2_mc.visible = false;
                    content3_mc.visible = false;
                    content4_mc.visible = false;
                    content5_mc.visible = false;
                }
            // 06A. CLEAR CONTENT (INITIAL)
                function clearContentInit():void{
                    content1_mc.visible = true;
                    content2_mc.visible = false;
                    content3_mc.visible = false;
                    content4_mc.visible = false;
                    content5_mc.visible = false;
                }

/////// LOOPS ///////////////////////////////////

// 07. FOR LOOP STATEMENTS
    for (var i:Number = 0;i<arrayBarButtons.length;i++){
        arrayBarButtons*.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, stateRollIn);
        arrayBarButtons*.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, stateRollOut);
        arrayBarButtons*.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, stateClick);
        arrayBarButtons*.mouseChildren = false; 
    }

/////// RUN FUNCTIONS ///////////////////////////////////
clearContentInit();

stop();

Thanks everyone in advance!
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