Check if function is not being used

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Hey all,

I am wondering if there is a way to write an if statement that asks if a function is not currently being used. For instance, I have a couple of movie clips. If one is clicked, I have a mouse event function that does something. I also have a boolean called selected, which traces if it is currently the movie clip clicked. When I click another one, the boolean is returning true to a movie clip that I clicked previously. Meaning it's not the currently selected one. This always happen especially the first tile I click when the game starts.

moccamaximum · Answer

if you are using MovieClips you can dynamically create any property you need.

So instead of storing the selected property on the application level you could attach a selected property to each of your movieclips

Then push all your MovieClips into an Array and when you select a MovieClip, parse through the array and set all the mcs selected property to false (except the one you clicked last)

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