Popup layers

[ctrlP]

I am pretty new to Actionscript and am having a problem.

Basically I am creating a movie and I want to include popup "layers". i.e. when the user clicks on a button a layer will popup with text in it and an X icon or close button to close the layer again. In essence, I want it to have the same effect as the show/hide layers function in javascript.

Thanks for any help!

[Caimin]

How are ya head?

The easiest way is probably to make the the object you want to appear in the pop-up a movie clip, then use the _visible property of the movie clip to make it visible or not.

For example...

1. make your popup into a movie clip, place it on the stage, give it the instance name "popup"

3. put this code on the popup movie clip:

onClipEvent(load){
this._visible = false;
}


2 . put this code on a button on the stage next to the popup movie clip (but not IN the movie clip):

on(release){
popup._visible = true;
}

3. on the X button in your popup movie clip put this code:

on(release){
this._visible = true;
}

4. there's no step 4, that's it.


Hope this helps.

[toke]

welcome ctrlP!

when the user clicks on a button a layer will popup with text in it and an X icon or close button to close the layer again.

you can create a movie clip that has a close button on it and use the button to call up that movie clip. for example:

on(release){
yourMovieclip._visible=true;
}

and on the close button or x icon inside "yourMovieclip"

on(release){
this._visible=false;
}

sth. like that

[toke]

Darn!!! :D seemed like i'm a slow typer today. hee hee

[ctrlP]

Thank you thank you thank you!!!

It has worked for me and I am now very happy- I have been trying to get that done for most of the afternoon!

Thanks for your help