Buttons and making them invisible

[Gary022576]

here's one that is stumping me right now... I have two buttons overlaying eachother. I only need one visible at a time, and would like to hide the other
i.e. Play/Stop button.

how can I hide one of the two buttons?

Thanks bros and bro-ettes

[small_alo]

If I were doing this, I'd make a movie clip called "TheButton" that have 2 frames "play" and "stop" (as well as the button images, respectively). In these 2 frames, I'd have a variable "a" that would equal 1 if it is playing, or 0 if it isn't. So "play" would have a = 1, and "stop" would have a = 0.
I'd place an invisible button over this movie clip and its action would be:
on(release) {
if (a == 1) {
TheButton.gotoAndStop("stop");
}
if (a == 0) {
TheButton.gotoAndStop("play");
}
}
Hope this helps.

[Gary022576]

isn't it amazing....


Doesn't it seem like shortly after you post something you figure it out? That was my case here. About fifteen minutes after I posted (and a pint of guiness later) I came to the same conclusion of sticking it in a MC.

For whatever reason I thought that a button object had a _visible property... I was wrong


Thanks for the heads up though, I appreciate it..

[miatchguy]

Hey small_alo; about that invisible button that you placed over the Movie Clips; how did you make it invisible?