# Noob query on Buttons

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/noob-query-on-buttons/318090>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 10, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/noob-query-on-buttons/318090 "2011-01-10T14:50:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![jaxz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@jaxz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jaxz)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/noob-query-on-buttons/318090/1 "2011-01-10T14:50:26Z")

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**Noob query on Buttons**

Dear all,  
Here comes a very ”noob query” about Buttons.  
My need is to have a button that can toggle a parameter on/off like “mute”/ "unmute” – and I’d like that to be a button – and upon selection it is to be replaced with an indentical (or similar) button including a red cross or so to indicate “Off” which appears in the same place on the stage. I know this should be trivial stuff – but not for me, I am a computational programmer (Fortran etc) at heart and know close to nothing about the graphic part of FLASH.

I do know that the graphics (skin buttons) should be placed in separate layers, and all my neat AS3 code in a separate layer.

So how can I do the above?

PLS advice,  
jaxz