FLASH: Re: toggling button- another way?

[Chris Burke]

John,

I got back to it and realized why your approach will not work for me. I

would have to change the names of 100+ labels and all the references to

them. (Each scene, in essence has the same information, so if it was all in

the same Scene timeline, the duplicate label names would all have to be

changed). And as you point out, my solution of changing scenes introduces

the problem of maintaining the toggle button state.


Maybe you can suggest a better way to do what I'm attempting. Basically I

have a set of images and buttons that stay the same throughout the game.

Occasionally, I want an action to add a new toggle button (MC) with the

sole purpose of muting/unmuting Beatnik music tracks. I figured I had to

recreate the whole set of images/buttons for each time I added a new toggle

button, hence the problems above. Is there another way to 'uncover' the

toggle buttons one by one? Maybe a way to make a hidden layer visible?


Thanks.


/Chris


>> I want to make a button that will toggle and stay at an 'on' state and then

>> an 'off' state when pressed again.

>Though you could make a toogle button without a MC it would be likely be

>very complicated.

>

>> The problem with making it a MC is that I will need to tell target it to

>> play and the main timeline will stop. Or can you have a MC play while the

>> main timeline is also playing? (I think there's something critical here

>> that I missed.)

>A Movie Clip has a timeline that moves indepdently of the main timeline.

>It must continue to exist to maintain it's memory.

>This answers your scene question if your MC toggle button must keep

>memory bettween scenes 1 and 2 then you should make it one scene.

>

>You probably should make it one scene anyway.

>While authoring add some extra frames between the Scenes and use Labels

>such as Scene2 to make things clear. Better yet give the "scenes" real

>names.

>Always use labels and remove the segment (scene) spacing frames when the

>movie is ready to go.


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