Is this a Recursive Function? Help please

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Hello all,

I have a movie with 5 buttons in it. Now, when a button is rolled over, it has an on state, and when clicked, it has an inactive state. Instead of writing alot of redundant code, I’m trying to see if I can simplify it. Here is what I have:

//active/inactive
function active (navClip) {
if (this.hitTest = true) {
navClip.onEnterFrame = function () {
this.enabled = false;
};
} else if (this.hitTest = true) {
navClip.onEnterFrame = function () {
this.enabled = true;
};
}
}
// button code
myBtn1.onRelease = function () {
active (myBtn1);
goToAndPlay some clip I have on stage
};

myBtn2.onRelease = function () {
active (myBtn2);
goToAndPlay some clip I have on stage
};

All AS is in the root, first frame. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!

Many Thanks in advance!

J

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Well, to answer the question, no that is not recursive… A recursive function basically calls itself repeatedly until something stops it… I’m not entirely sure what you’re doing, but this might help:

[AS]var selectedButton:MovieClip;
//
function buttonAction(buttonPressed:MovieClip, mcToPlay:MovieClip, frameToPlay:String):Void {
selectedButton.enabled = true;
buttonPressed.enabled = false;
selectedButton = buttonPressed;
mcToPlay.gotoAndPlay(frameToPlay);
}
// button code
myBtn1.onRelease = function() {
buttonAction(this, some_mc, “myFrameLabel”);
};
myBtn2.onRelease = function() {
buttonAction(this, someOther_mc, “myFrameLabel”);
};[/AS]

Also, be sure to watch the difference between the assignment operator and the equality operator when writing your scripts… it’s tricky…

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This works great, Thank You. It doesm’t seem to send the ‘myBtn’ clips back to their default speces… in other words, they stay on “[COLOR=#FF0000]myFrameLabel” [COLOR=Black]once they’ve been clicked…

Again, Many Thanks
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