Hello all,

My Case:
I have a US Map and several states are clickable, when you rollover a state it changes from yellow to red (this is a MC). When you click a state it stays red and a box 'drops down' from it with a body text explaining something about it (this is another separate MC). The box can be close in two ways: 1. By clicking on the state again. Or 2. By clicking on an X that the box has.

My problem:
I can't find a way to close the box via the X.

The Explanation:
The box with the text and the X are all a Movie Clip, this MC is activated by clicking on the state on the main Time Line, but I don't know how to make the X close the MC it's contained in (the drop down box). I can close the box from outside (main Time Line) by clicking the state though.

Does that make sense?

You have to consider that the X ' wouldn't ' know when the box is contained in is either open or closed... which is actually the piece of ActionScript that I need.

The code I'm using:
This is the code I'm using on the state to open and close the box containing the explanatory text, and the closing X of course:
[indent]
on (release) {
if (Number(test) == 1) {
test = 0;
} else {
test = 1;
}
}[/indent]

My problem:
As I mentioned, I don't know how to use the above code and use it inside a MC to make the box close itself if it's open... the X to close the box can only be seen when the box is open or has dropped down.

Can anyone give me a hand please?

Download the FLA:
To understand better my problem you can download the original file from here: http://www.ricardozea.net/map/map.zip

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!