Re: FLASH: Unwanted multiple MC pop-ups

[Jose M. Rubio/DoubleYou]

OK, Brian, let's try to make this quite simple. I'm pretty busy at the 

moment so I can't create an example for you but I'll try to make myself clear.


Guess you have some buttons on your timeline which call the pop-ups when 

you rollover them. Let's say those buttons apear at frame 10.

On frame 9, put that code:


         Set Variable: "switch"=false


Now move on to your buttons, where you tell them to create the MC instance 

on rollover. There you have to add the following lines to your code:

         On (Roll Over)

         If (switch=false)

                 (here goes your popup code)

                 Set Variable: "switch"=true

         End IF

         End On


I hope that's clear: you create a variable which tell the movie if a popup 

is being played or not. If it is playing the movie will do nothing; if not, 

it will display the popup and will set the "switch" on so no other popup 

can be triggered.


Let's disconnect the "switch" now. You have said that the MC disappear when 

you roll out of an invisible button incorporated to it. Well, add that to 

your code:


         On (Roll Out)

         Set Variable "/:switch"=false

                 (here goes you "destroy popup" code)

         End On



The only thing you have to be aware is your movie only gets once to frame 9 

(where we set the first value for our "switch"). If the movie goes back to 

that frame it will turn our "switch" to false no matter if a MC is playing 

or not.


Gotta work now, but I'll try to keep an eye on the list. So, if I hadn't 

been clear...



??????????????

>Uhhhhh... maybe I should have mentioned that I'm still a bit of a newbie...?

>I need LOTS of serious handholding when talking about this stuff, since I've

>never done them!

>Like "OK, Bri... start Flash... good, now open your file... that's right...

>now open your Library - that's CTRL>L - yep, you got it... now right-click

>on the MC you want to fix, scroll down to Edit, let go... great! Now,

>double-click on the last frame and in the Actions dialog..."

>That's a bit of an exaggeration, but I have no idea what you are talking

>about here, and need examples I can study and/or take apart.

>Sorry... I'm an artist, not a programmer (yet).

>Yes, I'm stupid until I get it.

>

>The pop-ups disappear when you roll out of an invisible button area

>incorporated into the MC.

>

>-Brian Matthews

>

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