RE: [flasher] Why won't button stay in down state?

[AndyA]

John,


I hardly ever use symbols of the button type. It is far easier to make a

movieclip with 3 frames in which you create your own button. On a separate

layer put an invisible button (the only kind I still use) which is a button

with hit area and no content. You should label the three frames "Up", "Over"

and "Down".


This way you have built a buttonMC which you can also target and control

because it is a movieclip.


Then the options are endless...


In this case:


click on the invisible button and add the code:


on (release) {

	buttonMC.gotoAndStop ("Down")

}


and it will stay there.


However, I suspect that what you want to do is to create a state button.

This would be one that you could click on and it would go down. Click on

again and it will come back up etc. In this case, you will need to know what

state it is in at any time. You could do this with a variable state = 0 for

when it is 'off' and state = 1 for when it is 'on'. So you might change the

code to


on (release) {

	if (state == 0) {

		buttonMC.gotoAndStop ("Down")

		buttonMC.state = 1

	} else {

		buttonMC.gotoAndStop ("Up")

		buttonMC.state = 0

	}

}


// for the other actions


on (rollover) {

	buttonMC.gotoAndStop("Over")

}

on (rollout) {

	buttonMC.gotoAndStop("Up")

}


Then click on the buttonMC movieclip and add the action


onClipEvent (load) {

	this.state = 0

	this.gotoAndStop ("Up")

}


so every time you click the button it looks to see what it's present state

is. If it's up then it goes to down. If it's down then it goes to up. You

can use the buttonMC.state value elsewhere too so that you know which

options are switched on in a series of buttons for example.


I'm doing this off the top of my head, but I think it'll work or at least

give you the idea of how to go about it.


regards


A