Detecting MovieClip Clicks

[brendanww]

How do I detect if a movie clip has been clicked (or what is the parallel of the button's on(press)).

[Gibberish]

to test if the button has been clicked you need to set a boolean value.

pressed = false; // set initializing variable
// Set onPress Function
myBtn.onPress = function(){
if(pressed == false){
pressed = true;
trace('this button has been pressed');
}else{
pressed = false;
trace('this button has been unpressed');
}// End If Statement
}// End onPress Function

[daveirish1]

so how can you stop it from being pressed more than once?

[Gibberish]

you want the button to now show as active, the mc to go away, or just nothing happen when the user clicks?

[daveirish1]

ideally, i suppose, i need the mc to go away when i click on another button (which will create a similar mc but with different values)
removemovieclip();?

i should use this? but where?

[Gibberish]

i would just turn its visibility off. This way the button is still there if needed later.


myBtn.onPress = function(){
if(!pressed){
pressed = true;
this._visible = false;
}// End If Statement
}// End onPress Function

then to revert it through another button

myBtn2.onPress = function(){
myBtn._visible = true;
pressed = null;
}// End onPress Function