Can one button type play nicely with others?

Question

So, I'm creating this nice little movie that has 5 or so
buttons on it (think: click on image to see painting, like a
gallery) and I've got four of the buttons working nicely with a
little help from my friend Actionscript 3.0 (eventListener and his
friend gotoAndStop and some others). These buttons go to a new
keyframe in the movie that contain the images for each button.
Relatively easy.
My question concerns the last button. This button wants
information (text) to pop-up or go away when clicked irrespective
of what frame the movie is on. I can't for the life of me figure
out how to get this done. And in a related question, is it possible
for this button to stay in it's down state until clicked again
(like a pause/play button on a music player)?
Sorry in advance for this lame question and thanks for any
input.

Answer 1

Either create a movieclip with text and control its
visibility with the button, or have a textfield and assign/remove
text.
You cannot make a button hold a state when mouse events
change for it. You can either create a movieclip version of it and
control where it is in its own timeline, or have two buttons, one
drawn for the normal state and one drawn for the down state, and
control their visibility between each each on clicking them....
click one, it makes the other visible and itself invisible,
etc.