Hiding/Showing Layers

[digiduck]

How can I hide/show a layer using actionscript?

Also I have a symbol/button that I need to hide/show, I'm trying to do this from a pushbutton that when clicked shows the symbol/button with the following code:

on (release) {
   symbol._visible="true";
}

then you click the symbol/button to hide it again. Problem is the pushbutton to show the symbol/button doesn't work. It doesn't do anything and no error is outputted.

Thanks for help.

 

[oldnewbie]

You can't hide or show a layer.
You can make invisible or visible a movie clip or a higher level. Put your button in a movie clip, or convert it, give an instance name on stage. I'll use my_mc.
On the first frame of my_mc, add:

this._visible = false; // no quotes!

Don't really know if you're talking about the pushbutton component, for which you'd probably have to use a chnageHandler function, but from another regular button, you can turn on the visibility of my_mc by adding this script to the button...

on(release){
_root.my_mc._visible = true;
}

You could also do it with an onRelease function for this other button, defined on the first frame of your movie...

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