How to use one button for more than one thing?

Hello

I tried the following for a menu:

User clicks on button
+alterable value a of button = 0
-> Create theobject at thecoordinates
-> set alterable value a of button to 1

User clicks on button
+alterable value a of button = 1
-> Destroy theobject
-> set alterable value a of button to 0

This is not working. because it somehow sets the alterable value so fast that the object gets destroyed right away. Any workaround?
Doesn't work with pressing a certain key either.

Also how do i prevent that if i have two clickable objects overlapping each other that both get clicked instead of the top one only?

The problem is that after the first event runs, the second is able to run as well. You have
1. If A set B
2. If B set A
3. Draw frame
4. Go to 1.
Which, as you would guess, means that B always happens.

Solution:
User clicks button:
-toggle flag 0 of button

User clicks button & flag 0 is on:
-Do Stuff A

User clicks button & flag 0 is off:
-Do Stuff B

If you must use alterable values, what I do is use a second alterable value and use it as a delay value that is usually set to 2 or 1 and is always subtracted from.

If you must use alterable values, you can toggle an alterable value by doing Set Alt Value to 1-Alt Value. The method mentioned above is a pain to implement in comparison ;)

Thanks.

Any idea to this? "Also how do i prevent that if i have two clickable objects overlapping each other that both get clicked instead of the top one only?"

For example: When the menu pops up and you click a button on the menu and there is an object behind the menu on the frame it get's clicked aswell.

I hope you understand what i mean.

You could maybe use the select object and put the condition "select by display order > select frontmost object"

That would be bad to use an extra extension and all that just because Fusion can't register only the top object that is clicked. :(

Tried it with layers and put the menu in another layer but still every object underneath gets clicked aswell.

This is how you do it:

It's very nice, but it's completely unrelated to the problem at hand ;)

Also, toggling a flag or toggling an alterable value is simpler than using a counter.

Hahah whoops. I didn't really read the thread. Just skimmed through and assumed too much. I had fun making it though.

Yeah LBs solution from post #2 worked like a charm.

Thanks to you anyways ChrisBurrows!

I now found a little solution for my menus: Sub-application object. I make for the menu a small frame and when the menu button is clicked it the sub-application gets visible. I don't really know if that is ressource hungry though.