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From: russ500 on 7 May 2008 10:27
Hi there,
Can anyone tell me how I go about making my movieclip buttons stay in over
state while they at their destination? For example, if I'm on my about page in
my website how can I get my about button to stay in it's over state, then go
back to it's normal state when another button is clicked and I go to a
different page? I hope I explained that ok, the only way I can think of doing
it is really long winded and I wondered if there was a better way. Below is the
code for one of my buttons.
Thanks in anticipation.

nav.home_btn.onRollOver = function () {
nav.home_btn.gotoAndPlay("over");
}
nav.home_btn.onRollOut = function () {
nav.home_btn.gotoAndPlay("out");
}
nav.home_btn.onRelease = function () {
if (currentPage != "home_mc")
{
exitPage(currentPage);
eval(currentPage).onEnterFrame = function()
{
goToNextPage(currentPage,"home");
}
}
}

From: clbeech on 7 May 2008 10:50
if you construct a MC button that has labels of '_up', '_over', and '_down' and
then apply a single handler like onRelease or onPress - Flash will recognize
that you are using the MC as a button and respond to the mouse events without
have to declare the other handlers.

Then, in your onRelease handler, tell the button to gotoAndStop('_down) (or
over in your case) and then use the 'enabled' prop to disable the button. Now
however you will need a method to 're-enable' any other button that was
previously disabled - best thing to do is to store the buttons in an array and
then iterate through the array a 'enable' all of them with the exception of the
one currently navigated to.

From: russ500 on 7 May 2008 10:57
Thanks cbeech I'll give it a try.
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