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Flash toggle button

I need a button in Flash/AS3 that toggles between on and off. So I was glad to see that the Button class has the toggle property that lets me have that behavior. I was less happy to see that what I get when I make something a "button" in the Flash file is an instance of SimpleButton class, which does not have that option. Is there a way...

Why is my AS3 SimpleButton not showing?

I'm very new to flash. I'm trying to show a simple button for my simple flash app (with adobe flex builder 3). The main project file, Client2.as: package { import flash.display.Sprite; [SWF(width="600", height="600", frameRate="31", backgroundColor="#00FFFF")] //set project properties public class Client2 extends Sprite ...

Changing SimpleButton.y does not appear to move the hitArea of the button

UPDATE: This is not an actual issue. It transpires that there was another Sprite being create and set to alpha=0 which just happend to be at the same Y position as the height of the SimpleButton. This was preventing interaction with the button. Thanks to the guys for your thoughts. I'm closing the question. I have a SimpleButton which...

Flash Actionscript 3 SimpleButton doesn't have focusEnabled property?

This is driving me insane. I am working in Flash (not Flex) with Actionscript 3. I have an instance of the class SimpleButton. I have a TextField that I don't want to lose focus when the user clicks my SimpleButton. It is my understanding that both Actionscript 2 as well as the Flex class 'Button' both have a settable/gettable proper...