Hide Layer in AS3

[ankur04]

Hi

I want to know how can I hide a particular layer during a mouse click event.

Thanks

Ankur

[Hakan_KIRIK]

You can't do that.

you can hide ( visible = false ) the movieclips and the buttons with instance names in that layer....

[ankur04]

Hi

Thanks for your reply.

Hiding movie clips and buttons is an option. But in case when there are too many of these, then it becomes a tedious task. Is there any way to hide a layer for a particular action?

[Kenneth Kawamoto]

Please note "layer" is merely a visual aid only exists in Flash authoring timeline. There are no "layers" in the compiled SWF, everything is "flattened".

To achieve what you want you can either put your object in a Sprite/MovieClip and hide it, or write a script to iterate objects in a loop to hide them.

[Hakan_KIRIK · Accepted solution]

- Is there any way to hide a layer for a particular action?

No. You can put them all in one movieclip or you can give them all instance names like:

layer1_mc1 , layer1_button1 etc.... and iterate ...

[Nico___]

The more I write in flash the more I think it's a bad joke.

You see lots of nice things, but they never work as expected, or are half baked.

Layers ? Of course, only you can't use them hahaha