turn off touch?

I'm developing a HUD with multi-level menus. I would like to have some of the buttons disappear, as some menus do not have as many choices as others. As far as I can tell, I have a couple options:

1. Make the unused buttons invisible. The problem is, they still seem to respond to touch, and I do not want them in the way of other things. Is there a way to make an object "untouchable" via script?

2. Make the buttons die when they are not in use, then re-rezzing when they're needed. I've not tried this approach yet, so do not know what problems might pop up.

Any suggestions, recommendations, ideas, or comments? I bow to the collective wisdom of this wonderful group

Baron

How about using different states for each button.

say menu1 and menu2 are states

you have a button that is touchable in menu 1
but that same button isn't used in menu2

in menu 2, you could just have a return; in the touch start portion of the button script.


the button would still technically be there... but it will not respond to touch

Thanks for that! Sometimes the obvious solution is the furthest from the mind. That ought to do the trick nicely. I don't see why that wouldn't do just what I want. I use states so much, I don't know why it didn't occur to me to have a state WITHOUT a touch event. Too early, I guess.

Baron

Oh. New question. If the button on the HUD is set to 0 alpha and it is in a state without a touch event, can things seen behind/through it be touched?

Baron

no... I don't think that would work.

because even if it is alpha 0, it is still technically there

how about using an llSetPos to kind of flip flop the buttons on a state change?
maybe push one out and pull one back simultaneously?