# HELP: Disabling Button AS not working
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-disabling-button-as-not-working/65225
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 24, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-disabling-button-as-not-working/65225 "2004-09-24T05:30:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@BUroKHUli](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/BUroKHUli)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 5:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-disabling-button-as-not-working/65225/1 "2004-09-24T05:30:53Z")
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;
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-disabling-button-as-not-working/65225/2 "2004-09-24T05:32:11Z")
disabled how? like you can’t roll over it? or when you click it does nothing?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 5:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-disabling-button-as-not-working/65225/3 "2004-09-24T05:42:31Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 5:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-disabling-button-as-not-working/65225/4 "2004-09-24T05:43:49Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-disabling-button-as-not-working/65225/5 "2004-09-24T05:56:19Z")
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…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 6:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-disabling-button-as-not-working/65225/6 "2004-09-24T06:06:45Z")
3reye Thanks. I’m looking for some TUTs here about disabling buttons and hope to apply it on my movies.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-disabling-button-as-not-working/65225/7 "2004-09-24T06:38:13Z")
3reye
Here is the file I have been practicing on. It’s a TUT I got from the site.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 8:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-disabling-button-as-not-working/65225/8 "2004-09-24T08:16:06Z")
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
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2004, 8:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-disabling-button-as-not-working/65225/9 "2004-09-24T08:23:23Z")
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;
}