Is there a way to turn off and turn on a Layer in Macromedia Flash MX.

I want that when I push a button, that a specified Layer disappears.
When I push the button again, the Layer should appear again.

To answer this question you should provide me with the action script
that turns on and turns of a layer - including the if statement that
finds out whether a layer is already turned on or not.
If there is no such function please tell me how I can solve my
problem.

For clarification:
I have in total 12 buttons - everyone should switch on 7 layers - so
in total there are 84 layers. I have to work with layers as the
interactions of those layers are important. I can not work with frames
as there would be too many combinations possible (2^12).

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Request for Question Clarification by skorba-ga on 21 Feb 2003 16:29 PST

Dear bnc_user -

There is no way to turn on and off a layer in flash. A layer is just a
tool for you while you are building your flash movie.

The basic unit in flash is a movie clip. If you turn the content on a
layer into a movie clip, and you give that movie clip a name, then you
can easily "turn that layer on or off". That is accomplished by using
the _visible property of a movie clip.

on (release)
{

}

If this answer will suff

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Request for Question Clarification by skorba-ga on 21 Feb 2003 16:32 PST

Sorry about that - the message got chopped:

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on (release) 
{ 
 if (your_clip._visible) your_clip._visible = false;
 else your_clip._visible = true;
} 

Also - it sounds to me like you would be better off placing all the
seven layers into one movie clip - but of course that might be wrong.

Please tell me if this answer will suffice, and then I can turn it
into a formal answer.

Good luck!

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Clarification of Question by bnc_user-ga on 22 Feb 2003 22:28 PST

Thanks for your answer Skorba... I guess I can continue working with
that... You basically answered my question...  and thank you for
answering this one as a clarification, I appreciate this - this gives
other experts the possibility to come up with an answer too.

So you can post an answer and I will give it a positive rating.

I got the answer out of your posts already so there is no need to put
this in a formal answer... or just do a copy paste of your
clarification.

Dear bnc_user - 

Thank you very much. I am honored by your comments. It is for users
like you I post answers.

Skorba