flash actionscript: I was wondering if was possible to make it so that you can only click on a
button once and then the script is disregarded or destroyed. The reason that I
want this to happen is because when the mc is clicked on it goes to and plays
at the next frame, i already know how to do this, but i dont want it to be able
to be clicked on again and go back to the frame and play again. I know that i
could set this up through a series of attach movies, but (since im using swift
3D for the art, and wasnt thinking ahead)making that work would take longer
than it is worth. I am ng an on (press) ,gotoAndPlay blah blah, on the mc. and
the mc has a stop(); on the first frame, and the second frame is labeled fall.
how would i do this?

thanks

if you want a button/movieclip button to only work once you can use its enabled
property. if you want a button/movieclip button to continue to execute some
code (but not all code) and continue to act like a button, the code you want to
execute only once can be put in a conditional statement:



if(!hasBeenExecutedPreviously){
// code you want to execute exactly once
hasBeenExecutedPreviously=true;
}

You are amazing!!!!!! I didn't even know there was such a thing as enabled
property! But when you said it, i tried it and it worked perfectly! How do you
know all this stuff? Thanks once again kglad!( i think you are the only person
who's ever really answered my questions.

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