how to: turn several MovieClips 'off' and then 'on'

[dsnazarian]

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I am curious how it might be possible to switch several mc's 'off' upon a loadMovie command. The set-up is thus:

There is a 'tooltip' mc offstage that gets called via duplicateMovieclip. Several thumbnails on the stage utilize this clip to provide info about each thumbnail. When a thumbnail image is clicked on, it loads an external movie onto the stage, covering the thumbnails and their little tooltip clips. However, it is possible to see both the thumbs and their (still) active tooltips through the semi-transparent background of the loaded movie.

My goal is this: stop the tooltips/thumbnail buttons from functioning while there is a movie loaded over them. when the movie is closed and unloaded, they should return to 'on' status.
thanks.

[redact207]

have you tried:

use the duplicateMovie command within a for loop. to turn it on and off, use another function within a for loop.

eg:

//duplicates the toolTip MC
function dupToolTip()
{
   numberOfToolTips = 20;
   for(i=0; i<numberOfToolTips; i++)
   {
      toolTip.duplicateMovie("toolTip" + i, i);
      setProperty("toolTip" + i, _x, getProperty("toolTip" + i, _width) * i);
   }
}

//change the state of the tooltip MC's
function changeState(state, numberOfToolTips)
{
    for(i=0; i<numberOfToolTips; i++)
      setProperty("toolTip" + i, _enabled, state);
}

hope this is what you were asking