# Deaktivate and hide buttons
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/deaktivate-and-hide-buttons/63702
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [September 9, 2004, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/deaktivate-and-hide-buttons/63702 "2004-09-09T09:27:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@fightalone](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fightalone)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/deaktivate-and-hide-buttons/63702/1 "2004-09-09T09:27:04Z")
ok… my question is: how to deaktivate a button so it cant be clicked anymore… and lateron aktivate it again…
i could simply fade the button… but when the user moves the mouse over the faded button it still could be clicked… and i want to avoid this…
thx in advance for any help
yours sincerly
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/deaktivate-and-hide-buttons/63702/2 "2004-09-09T09:32:18Z")
buttonname.enabled = false;
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/deaktivate-and-hide-buttons/63702/3 "2004-09-09T11:59:59Z")
Well… you used the code above posted by amanuo… But to reactivate it you need to set buttonname.enabled = true; on another button… so let’s just say for example you have 4 buttons… it would look something like this…
```auto
[color=red]on (release) {
button1.enabled = false; [/color]
[color=red]button2.enabled = true;[/color]
[color=red]button3.enabled = true;[/color]
[color=red]button4.enabled = true;[/color]
[color=red]}[/color]
```
That code would be on the first button… The for the second button it would be…
```auto
[color=red]on (release) {
button1.enabled = true; [/color]
[color=red]button2.enabled = false;[/color]
[color=red]button3.enabled = true;[/color]
[color=red]button4.enabled = true;[/color]
[color=red]}[/color]
```
and so on…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/deaktivate-and-hide-buttons/63702/4 "2004-09-09T13:53:29Z")
thx guys… thats all i need to know…