Buttons on top of buttons

Question

Hi,
I'm having some problems with a course and hoping someone may be able to help.
I have created an advent calender style slide, each time you click a door it opens and a pop up appears with some information in. The pop up is made up of an image, a couple of text boxes and a smartshape which I'm using as a button all grouped. What I want to happen is when you click the button in the group the pop up is hidden and you can select another door. What actually happens is you click the button but click on another door that's underneath the button activating it and bringing up another pop up. It's like it's transparent. I have brought the smartshape to the top of the group and the pop up groups sit above everything else in the timeline.
I'm stumped so any help appreciated.
Ryan

Answer 1

Thanks so much for the response. I read the blog post and think it may apply but not sure how I would go about doing it. Here are some screen shots that may help describe what's going on:
1. This is the initial view. Each door is a button, when clicked the door opens and a pop up appears.
2. Here's the pop up. It's a group of several elemets. Over the ribbon is a transparent smartshape button which hides the group returning you to the calander view so you can click another door. I have scribbled the location of the close button in blue.
3. Now here's the problem. When I click the button instead of the group hiding the button on the door directly beneath the button is activated, it opens and it's pop up appears.
I suppose that what needs to happen the button for the advent calender door directly beneath the 'close' button needs to be made inactive when any of the pop up groups are visible but how I could achieve this I have no idea so as always any ideas appreciated.