If Statement, rechecking to see if true

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I am working with a movie clipt hat I want to disable some buttons once it moves to a certain position, that position created by some variables.

I placed the below code into a controller moving clip with the code on frame one, and then on frame 2 is gotoAndPlay(1);


onEnterFrame = function() {
if(textMCBottomPos <= maskMCBottomPos){
          this._parent.upbutton.enabled = false;
     this._parent.upbutton.alphaTo(50, 1);
}
else{
    this._parent.upbutton.enabled = true;
     this._parent.upbutton.alphaTo(100, 1);
}
if(textMCTopPos <= maskMCTopPos){
          this._parent.downbutton.enabled = true;
      this._parent.downbutton.alphaTo(100, 1);
}
else{
          this._parent.downbutton.enabled = false;
      this._parent.downbutton.alphaTo(50, 1);
}
}

Here are the variables its pulling from, which are on the first frame of the root movie.

The problem is the if statement only runs once, and does not update… I thought since I have it in a controller movie clip that keeps running the it would update… but it does not.

any help would be greatly appreciated.


var textMCBottomPos:Number = mover._y + mover._height;
var maskMCBottomPos:Number = stopper._y + stopper._height;
var maskMCTopPos:Number = stopper._y;
var textMCTopPos:Number = mover._y;

Thank you,
Dale