How do I make all buttons on stage unclickable, while a certain movie clip is visible?

[I_need_a_sceen_name]

Hi,

I have a button on stage which opens a popup (movie clip is popup + several other buttons). The movie clip and the buttons on it take up most of the stage.

The problem is that the buttons which are on the stage, and are behind the movie clip, remain clickable (you can click through the movie clip!). How may I disable this?

Basically, I need to make it that you cannot click through the movie clip.

Thanks in advance!

PS I am using CS5 and AS2.

[Ned Murphy · Accepted solution]

One way would be to make the movieclip clickable.  That would make it block the other objects behind it...

     mc.onRelease = function(){ }

     mc.useHandCursor = false; // to hide the hand cursor

Another way would be to disable the buttons while the movieclip is present...

     btn.enabled = false;

Another way would be to build conditional code into the button clicking code to not work if the movieclip is visible.

     btn.onRelease = function(){

          if(!mc._visible){

                // okay to do stuff

          }

     }

[I_need_a_sceen_name]

ty! resolved!

[Ned Murphy]

You're welcome