How to make a button click make text appear elsewhere on the screen

Question

I have a map of the US and  each state has a rollover that changes the color of the state...what i  am trying to figure out is how to click on the state and have text  appear to the side of the US map and have that text stay up until the user clicks on another state. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

Good... keep working at it... I was already preparing the following for you, but if you pursue your own solution you will learn more and become more comfortable with working with Flash.
If you want to look at what I was going to offer to possibly streamline what you end up with, or just have trouble, here it is...
Select one of your states and give it an instance name in the properties panel... let's say you pick Utah and you name the instance "utah"  For example sake, let's say you also do the same for Ohio (naming it "ohio").
Create a dynamic textfield where you want the text to be displayed and assign it an instance name, let's say you name it... "stateInfo"
Create a new layer for actionscript so that you can assign some code for teh states.  In that layer, in the frame where the states are, select the empty keyframe, open the Actions panel, and place all of the following code there...
var utahInfo = "Whatever text you want to display when you click Utah";
var ohioInfo = "Whatever text you want to display when you click Ohio";
utah.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, showInfo); // assigns a listener to the button
ohio.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, showInfo);
// for the above you will do the same for the rest of the state buttons... they can all share the following event handler function because it uses their names to identify the text variable that will be assigned to the textfield
function showInfo(evt:MouseEvent):void {
     stateInfo.text = this[evt.currentTarget.name+"Info"];