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Question

On my screen are tiles generated from an array. I have a mouse roll over function called rollover, that adds a movieclip that highlights the edge of the tiles that I am currently on. I want it so that once I click a tile, the roll over function doesn't work until another button is clicked. I tried putting removeEventListener for the roll over function in the click function, doesn't seem to work. How would I go about this if possible?

I will post more information if needed.

function rollover(event:MouseEvent)
      {
        var tileHover = true;
        if (tileHover == true){
                (event.currentTarget as Tile).outline.gotoAndStop("hover");
                }
        if(tileHover == false){
                (event.currentTarget as Tile).outline.gotoAndStop("blank");
                }
      }

Below is the mouseclick function

function mouseclick(event:MouseEvent)
      {
        tileHover = false;
        if (tileHover == false){
            tile_MC.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, rollover)
                            }
      }

Josh Josh · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-22T19:01:53

See below. You set a property and immediately check what the value of that property is. It will always be true because you just set it as true.

var tileHover = true;
if (tileHover == true){
   (event.currentTarget as Tile).outline.gotoAndStop("hover");
}

Also, don't forget your data types.

Disable a function temporarily as3

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