LoadMovie and turn off buttons below

[billingsgate]

I have a movie with numerous buttons around the stage. There are also a couple of invisible buttons which have an onRollOver function to trigger some sounds.

Clicking the buttons uses loadMovie to load various external SWFs into a container which is on top of much of the stage. In each external SWF are more buttons which control functions within that movie. Only one external SWF loads at any time.

The problem is, when the external SWF loads, the buttons beneath it, although they are now unseen, retain their functionality, including navigation and the onRollOver triggered sounds. Thus they interfere with the buttons in the external SWF.

Is there a simple way to load an external SWF so that it completely turns off any interactivity underneath it?

I apologize if this is a dumb question.

[oldnewbie]

Add an invisible button (with no script) covering the whole stage area, on the lowest layer of all the loaded movies, maintaining any other buttons on higher layers. It will override all underlying buttons, but won't do anything else since it has no script. You can even turn off the pointing finger icon with the following....

my_invisible_btn.useHandCursor = false;

[billingsgate]

Merci bien for the ingenious and extremely simple solution. Works perfectly!