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[porgeet]

Hello there.

I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a good tutorial.

What I'm looking for is a was of checking if a button has been turned on or off. And if it's on perform something different when other buttons are clicked, or rolled over.

I was looking at if statements, but I can't find a relivant tutorial. There is one on checking the active states of buttons. But it seems a little to advanced for me.

Any help would be greatly received.

Thanks.

[MAdEinUK1]

http://www.thecodebehind.com/code/flash/ac...tton-state.aspx

There you go.

[porgeet]

Thanks MadeinUK, but unfortunatly I don't understand that one.

Edit

I was thinking of setting a variable if a button is clicked. Could anyone tell me how to do that ?

Edited by porgeet, 30 June 2006 - 04:19 PM.

[Tromac]

If you create a variable that acts like a switch (eg. If it has a value of 1 it's on, if 0 it's off) you could do it. Give each button it's own variable (button1, button2, etc) and just use an IF statement to check the value of the variable (Eg, if button 1 has a value of 1, then do...)

say your variable is called button1:

button1 = 0

This means the switch is off (Button 1 is depressed)

Then on button1, your script would look something like this:

on (release){
	button1 = 1
}

This means when you press button 1, the value of the variable is changed to 1 (on).

Later on, if you want actions to be different depending on if that button was pressed, use an IF statement simmilar to this:

if(button1 = 1){
	//******INSERT SCRIPT FOR IF BUTTON HAS BEEN PRESSED*******
}else if(button1 = 0){
	//******INSERT SCRIPT FOR IF BUTTON HAS NOT BEEN PRESSED*******
}

I hope this helps