Re: FLASH: Disabling a Button

[Marc Hoffman]

At 11:01 AM 3/8/99 -0500, you wrote:

>Good Morning All,

>

>I need some help please. I want to disable a button while its OnPress 

>animation plays till its end while at the same time keeping the button 

>visible on the stage. 


Two methods come to mind:


1) have another MC that throws an invisible "lockout" button over the

feedback button in MC '1' for the duration of the animation in MC '2.' The

lockout button will disable the control button. Time the lockout duration

either by the number of frames it remains in its timeline, or by having a

TellTarget at the end of the animation that moves lockout's timeline ahead

to a place where lockout does not exist.


2) Have the animation TellTarget MC '1' to move to the next frame.  Make it

a keyframe. Double-click the feedback button and change its behavior to

graphic.  Make the end of the animation TellTarget MC '1' to go the the

previous frame.


-Marc



>

>The button is in MC 'A' in the main timeline. 

>

>Inside MC 'A' there is MC '1' and MC '2'.

> 

>MC '1' contains a continuous feedback type button employing invisible 

>buttons. MC '2' contains the button animations. The button uses Tell Target 

>actions to contol the animations in MC '2'.

>

>All the onstage button graphics are in MC '2' . 

>

>Thanks for any help,

>Larry 

>

>

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