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POBest Practices for Suspending Buttons in Actionscript 3
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copied!<p>Is there a better way to set up a flash project with lots of navigation than having to do this?:</p> <pre><code>bottomNav.contact_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); bottomNav.portfolio_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); bottomNav.news_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); bottomNav.inspiration_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); bottomNav.home_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); secondaryNav.about_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); secondaryNav.services_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); secondaryNav.home_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); secondaryNav.inspiration_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); secondaryNav.inspiration_archive_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); secondaryNav.portfolio_showcase_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); secondaryNav.portfolio_archive_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); </code></pre> <p>and if not, there are always moments between animations where the last thing you want to happen is for someone to click a button and have another function fire off in the middle of your beautiful wipe between two scenes. You end up with (or at least I do) countless errors and a pissed off client. </p> <p>What do you do to suspend all of those listeners without adding a function to the end of every other function to temporarily disable them?</p> <p>Please, if someone has the magic practice, I'd love to hear it. </p> <p>in regards to how I do it I've been writing something like this:</p> <pre><code>function suspendBtns():void { secondaryNav.inspiration_archive_btn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); secondaryNav.portfolio_showcase_btn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); secondaryNav.portfolio_archive_btn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeContent); } </code></pre> <p>and would add <code>suspendBtns()</code>; to the end of every function that would transition between clips.<br> then obviously another function called <code>enactBtns()</code> or something like that.</p> <p>I tried once just adding one event listener to the stage:</p> <pre><code>stage.addEventListner(MouseEvent.CLICK, doFunction); </code></pre> <p>and then the function would find the name of the btn like:</p> <pre><code>function doFunction(e:Event):void{ switch(e.target.name){ case"home_btn": doThis(); break; case"away_btn": doThat(); break; } } </code></pre> <p>and so on. That didn't work so well, it felt as though I had to click every button twice to get it to work. </p> <p>And I still had to suspend the event listener in between actions.</p>

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