HELP: Disabling Button AS not working

programming flash
1

Hello again,

I have 4 buttons on a timeline, and each loads different external SWFs. I want that when I clicked on 1 button, let’s say the “button1”, it will load the MOVIE and the button will be disable until I have clicked on another button. I tried this script below but didn’t get any RESULT.

on (release) {
if (expand == 0) {
gotoAndPlay(“AA”);
_parent.pointerMC.gotoAndPlay(“BB”);
} else {
gotoAndStop(currentFrame);
}
_parent.containerMC.loadMovie(“movieMC.swf”);
expand = 1;
_parent.button1.enabled = false;
_parent.button2.enabled = true;
_parent.button3.enabled = true;
_parent.button4.enabled = true;
}

2

disabled how? like you can’t roll over it? or when you click it does nothing?

3

The above script works, but only on the 2nd CLICK of the button. LOL. Anyway, is there anyway of disabling buttons in Flash other than “???.enabled = true;” AS?

4

enabled = false; totally disabled the button. My script above worked but not on the first click, but on the 3rd click. hehehe!! I’ve been playing around with it. Any help is appreciated.

5

you can make them invisible or you can add an if statement that judges wether or not to do something. like as in: if the section the button loads, is not loaded, load it, other wise do nothing… this is probably the standard way to do it…

6

3reye Thanks. I’m looking for some TUTs here about disabling buttons and hope to apply it on my movies.

7

3reye

Here is the file I have been practicing on. It’s a TUT I got from the site.

8

I was thinkig of incorporating this PSEUDOCODE to my script above.

if (myClip.swf==Loaded) {
buttonName.enable = false;
} else {
buttonName.enable = true;
}

Need a little help

9

i hope this works:
give every button a name (ex. b1, b2, …)
and add the code(change b1 and movie1):
on (release) {
_root[_root.currentMovie].enabled = true;
_root.currentMovie = “b1”;
_root.containerMC.loadMovie(“movie1.swf”);
_root.b1.enabled = false;
}