Script to turn off mouse input?

Question

In my director movie, i have sprites that can be clicked to
perform an action through a mouseUp handler. My problem is that
when a sprite is clicked, i dont want it to be clicked again until
the sprite has been 'reset'. Is there a property i can change so
that mouse clicks no longer apply?

Answer 1

I like to do this by creating a sprite property.
property spriteNum, pEnabled
on beginSprite me
sprite(spriteNum).pEnabled = true
end
on mouseUp me
if sprite(spriteNum).pEnabled then
-- Do something here
sprite(spriteNum).pEnabled = false
end if
end
This allows the button to be clicked once, execute whatever
code you desire,
then disabled the button from executing the code again by
setting the
button's pEnabled property to false. Some where else you can
reset the
sprite's pEnabled property back to true so that it will
respond to the
mouseUp event again.