How do I inactivate all other movie clips except the running one.

Question

Hello guys
I would need help to inactivate all other actions on movie clips while the active movie clip is running. So in my flash scen when the user makes a roll over on a movie clip I would like that movie clip to play all frames in that movie clip before the user can roll over on an other movie clip. So the active movie clip don't gets interupted. What actionscript 2.0 should I look for?
Thanks!
/Klas

Answer 1

You could use a boolean variable in a conditional that wraps whetever functionality the objects have to prevent them from taking those actions.  So when you rollover an object it starts to activate its animation or whatever and sets that boolean to prevent any others from doing the same.  And when it completes its actions it rets the boolean.
If you show your rollover code it might be easier to show an example, but it might be something like...
var allowPlay = true;
mc1.onRollOver = rolloverFunction;
mc2.onRollOver = rolloverFunction;
mc3.onRollOver = rolloverFunction;
function rolloverFunction(){
   if(allowPlay){
       allowPlay = false;
       this.play(); // or whatever action your rollover executes
and when that animation completes the movieclip resets the allowPlay to true.
_root.allowPlay = true;