can't disable button??

[i like chips]

Hey everyone,

I'm having some trouble disabling a button and I'm not really sure what's going on. I have a MC on a scene. As soon as this MC loads I want to disable buttons that are on the scene. ie I have sort of a " movieclip popup window." and when it pops up I want the buttons behind this movie clip to be disabled so the user only interacts with the mc. I've tried:

_root.btnEmail.enabled = false;

but it doesn't seem to work. Any ideas? Would this have to do anything with the fact that the button I'm trying to disable (btnSend) contains a mc as well??

Help! hehe

[Billy T]

enabled is an mx action

you'll need to put your buttons inside mcs...then say on frame 2 of each mc you have the button graphic but its just shape (or a graphic symbol or whatever)

then when you want to disable the buttons you send each clip to frame 2

cheers

[i like chips]

hm wow that was quick. thanks and I will do that