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Asked: 2026-05-12T09:46:59+00:00

I have a .fla file created by our designer and he has created a

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I have a .fla file created by our designer and he has created a set of SimpleButtons that I have wired to a video player. Now I need to set the status of a button to “over” if the video that it is associated with is playing.

The button is somewhat sophisticated graphically so its not something that I want to recreate with AS.

Is there some way to just set the myButton.upstate = myButton.overstate while the video is playing? I saw the question here which seems to lead me to believe that SimpleButton is not so amenable to manipulation. I have looked at the example of creating it from scratch with AS3 here but it’s going to be a formidable task to recreate these buttons.

I can do that, but I don’t want to go off on a tangent unless there is no other way to do it since it’s one of those things that “seems” like it ought to be simple.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you check out the Flash API, upState and overState (note the camel case here) ARE read/writable. So you may have answered your own question here:

    myButton.upstate = myButton.overstate

    Give it a test and see if it works. Just make sure you save the actual upState in a temporary variable so you can change it back when the video is not playing.

    Whenever I run into the case where I have to programmatically change the state of a Button, I just use the Flash IDE and make a MovieClip with a frame for each state of the button. I know this isn’t your ideal solution, but it works.

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