ActionScript 2.0 :: Maintaining Appearance Of "down" State In Buttons?
Nov 14, 2005
i posted this on actionscript.org with a reply, but the code provided by one of the admin only did half the trick. maybe further assistance can be provided here. so i have a set of buttons arranged in a sort of gallery menu, such that each button is a link to a different set of pictures. the menu stays visible the whole time, while the corresponding pictures are loaded into an empty movie clip. what i want to do is have these buttons, when pressed, show their down state (to indicate which item the user is currently viewing), until a different button is chosen. in which case the new button will then show its "down" state and the former button will return to its "up" state.
so just to clarify. say i have buttons "1" , "2" , "3" , "4". the user clicks number "3". the button turns from red to blue, loads the appropriate content and remains blue until, say button "4" is pressed. button "3" now goes back to red, and button "4" becomes blue and loads the content.
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Code: Select allbutton1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, redover1);
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