# HELP! enabled = false; for only a duration

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-enabled-false-for-only-a-duration/192852
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 2, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-enabled-false-for-only-a-duration/192852 "2006-07-02T01:23:09Z")
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### Author: ![ZeypheR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ba9def/32.png) [@ZeypheR](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ZeypheR)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2006, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-enabled-false-for-only-a-duration/192852/1 "2006-07-02T01:23:09Z")

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Greetings! Its amazing how fast things get complicated in flash, and flash is just amazing period. I two buttons which are actually MCs, actually four, but i’m only dealing with two for now. Button A does something when pressed, and Button B tells Button A to ‘put away’ what it just did. This transition takes anywhere from 0-1.5 seconds. Everything works according to plan except I discovered that anyone can just press Button A again within that 0-1.5 seconds and mess things up.

I have been playing around with ‘enabled’ function so I tacked this onto Button B:

```auto
_root.button_a.enabled = false;

```

That worked the way I wanted it to except I’m not sure how to enable it again. I would like to have it set itself back to enable = true; after the 1.5 second duration. Is this at all possible? I am new to AS and its terminology so if there is a better way, I am all ears of course.  
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Thank you very kindly.

-Zey