Newbie wants to know how to keep a simple button DOWN

[christian perry]

Here's my problem:

I drew a graphic and converted it to a simple button.

Then, I double-clicked it to add the UP, OVER, DOWN, and HIT stages.

Right now, the user has to continue pressing the button DOWN to continue viewing the DOWN stage.

But, I'd like for this button to remain in the DOWN stage until a different button is clicked - even if the user is not continuing to press the button down.

So my question is this:

Can you make a simple button remain in the DOWN stage until the next simple button is clicked?

Thanks!

[EmJayDesign]

I know of a way to do this, only if when the user clicks on the different buttons, does that take you to a different frame or scene? If so , you can do the following:

On the page/frame that you are going to go into by clicking on the button, change that rollover button from a button symbol to a graphic and then it will be static with no rollover capabilities.

Hope this helps you..

[christian perry]

Well, I have it set up so that when the user rolls over my button, a new graphic appears and then when the user clicks the button down, several new graphics appear.

Right now, when the user releases the button, the screen loses the new graphics that appeared when the button was clicked down.

I'd prefer to have those new graphics remain on the screen even when the user releases the button.

And, I'd like to have those new graphics remain on the screen until the user rolls over or presses down on a different button.

Thanks very much for your help. Maybe I'm almost there - just need that final step.

[EmJayDesign]

I am working on a website that has something similar, don't know if this helps you-
Keep what you have at the rollover stage.
Instead of putting new graphics at the down stage, make a new frame in your scene with those images. Then put an actionscript on the button --
on :release
go to and stop: then type the frame # that you put the new images in.

Not sure if this is clear, let me know if you don't understand!

:)

[christian perry]

Hey - you got it! :D

That's the core of what I needed to get past this hurdle.

A million thanks!

However, now I notice that when I first enter the screen which contains these buttons, the screen blinks rapidly through all the frames before stopping again on frame 1.

I added the following actionscript to frame 1:

stop();

... but that did not solve this new problem.

Any ideas about how I might prevent the blinking?