Using variables to control movie clips Flash 5

How do you make menu clips close when you open new ones? Or ever go to a site and press every button at once to see what would happen? Most times, every clip or menu will pop open and stay there. Yuk.



The answer: don't use buttons to activate clips. Use them to change variables. Then make each and every clip do what it is supposed to, but only when the variable is the one the clip is looking for.