Multiple Hit Button Without Using The Timeline

Question

Hello. I'm pretty much a beginner when it comes to flash. So,
I assume there's been a post about this topic already. But, does
anyone know how to script a code that lets you hit a button
multiple times to execute an action without using the time line.
For example. on
http://www.group94.com/ website
under menu / projects they use arrows to move the text on the y
axis. Every time you click down on the text, it shifts upwards. I
assume this a multiple hit action since the text shifts to? Can
anyone help. Thanks.
George

Answer 1

Well, every action assigned to a button is executed multiple
times when the button is hit repeatedly. I assume you mean kind of
different actions? This could be done with a counter variable and a
switch statement, like this:
var count:Number = 0;
button.onRelease = function(){
count++;
switch(count){
case 1:
// actions for 1st click
break;
case 2:
break;
case 5:
count = 0; // reset counter
break;
However, in the website you linked, I suppose they don't do
it this way, but with a more dynamic approach: Load the data (links
and linktext) from a xml or text file, then build an array out of
the contents and display the first entries. When the button is
clicked, the first entry goes off, the next entry comes in. When
the end of the array is reached, go back to entry 1 (not sure they
do that, I didn't try it so far). So you would need a function,
like displayNext(), that executes on every click and checks for
itself which is the next entry to display and goes through the
array this way.
That's just a guess how they did it, or rather, how I would
do it. ;)
hth,
blemmo