Use One Condition to Check Multiple Things [C2] [SOLVED]

Hello, all.

I'm looking for a C2 algorithm for 1 condition on key press that could check 4 things.

I have 4 elements/sprites.

"story so far"

"continue"

"start a new game"

"controls"

They blink on auto in sequence as selections.

Currently I have this setup:

if button is pressed (say XPAD D-pad up):

if anim "blink" in "story so far" is playing:

<-- set anim "default" in "story so far"

<--set anim "blink" in controls

2 other conditions for the other elements

if anim "blink" in "controls" is playing:

<-- set anim "default" in "controls"

<--set anim "blink" in "story so far"

**This ends up executing 2 conditions because of the resets as opposed to 1**, (1 exclusive condition check is what I need), so the list never goes to the last element.

I'm guessing this is a pretty common problem in programming, so the solution is just having 1 condition check on key press which checks 4 things?

No idea how to program this.

I'm guessing something with pushback array, etc.?

You don't need arrays..

You can use a simple variable MenuSelected (which stores a number id or a text tag of the button) and, say, a function that will set "Blink" animation for the selected item and "default" for others.

On button Up pressed -> 
   set MenuSelected to Max(1, MenuSelected-1)
   Call Function UpdateMenuButtons()

On button Down pressed -> 
   set MenuSelected to Min(4, MenuSelected+1)
   Call Function UpdateMenuButtons()

On Function UpdateMenuButtons
   MenuButton -> Set animation to "Default"
   Pick MenuButton with id=MenuSelected -> Set animation to "Blink"
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If you prefer working with string tags, this expression may be handy to minimize the number of events:  
(condition ? result_if_true : result_if_false)

.....set MenuSelected to (MenuSelected="controls" ? "start" : (MenuSelected="start" ? "continue" : (MenuSelected="continue" ? "story" : "controls")))

Thank you.

That's very interesting.