Re: FLASH: Unwanted multiple MC pop-ups

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 09:21 AM 6/5/2000 , you wrote:


>My latest project (which I'd like to send you all to to have a look at, but

>the client has spoken: NO!) involves (and I've mentioned this before) MC's

>that pop up when you roll over tick marks on a timeline; I am getting

>instances of multiple pop-ups depending on how wild and crazy you get with

>the mouse, and I need to figure out a way to to get this to stop. Is there

>some way of telling all the other rollovers NOT to pop-up while one is

>already up? Or is there some better way of organizing my efforts to make

>this a little cleaner and not have the multiple pop-ups?


I had a similar problem in Flash3 once. I solved it by having a movie clip 

that would display a stage-sized invisible button over everything else for 

several frames every time the user hit one of the many buttons (in your 

case, tick marks). The movie clip was only a few frames long and would 

automatically return to an empty frame after displaying the large button. 

The large button had no actions, but blocked all other buttons while it was 

present. There are probably more elegant ways to do this with ActionScript, 

but this is actually a pretty simple solution.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media

Flash portfolio: http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/portfolio



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