# Make buttons inactive

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/make-buttons-inactive/266086>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 16, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/make-buttons-inactive/266086 "2008-07-16T04:37:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![saxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@saxx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/saxx)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 4:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/make-buttons-inactive/266086/1 "2008-07-16T04:37:39Z")

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I want to make a few buttons inactive because if pressed during the transition process it really screws things up. Anybody know how?

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**Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/make-buttons-inactive/266086/2 "2008-07-16T05:03:35Z")

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Remove the event listeners.

If you are using SimpleButton, you can use the enabled property:  
[http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/display/SimpleButton.html#enabled](http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/display/SimpleButton.html#enabled)

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**Author:** ![saxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@saxx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/saxx)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 6:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/make-buttons-inactive/266086/3 "2008-07-16T06:01:45Z")

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Ok I’ll experiment with that