Is there a way to make a button not clickable

[cloudette]

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if there was a way to stop a button from being clickable. Lets say the user has been idle on a site for 5 minutes. I want to flash movie to through up a translucent cover on the buttons and make the buttons not clickable.

Thanks in advance

[meniscus]

you can specify in the frame that you place a button for the button to behave as a graphic. This will make it unclickable. You even have options as to how the button looks as a graphic. Does it loop through the four states, does it play through just once, or does it use any of the four states as a static graphic. I almost always do navigation this way, so that when you are in a section that button becomes a static graphic held in the down state.

Since a graphic symbol can have effects just like a button, you can just turn down the alpha opacity or tint it for the effect you want. Just apply both opperations to the buttons at a key frame 5 minutes(dependant on FPS) down your main timeline. For the best effect, make keyframes, convert to graphic, add another set of keyframes a few frames later in the timeline, and then just tween either the opacity or tint.

[jellowombat]

to make it unclickable, duplicate symbol, edit it and take off the hit area OR make it different color. On a time delay its difficult, because there is no real way in KNOWING what is idle :P but you can have it grey out until things occur such as load...

[whispers]

this works for anything that have events.

movieClips, buttons..etc