Red/Green func-button textures -- Is this how to do it right ?

Objective: When using a button that activates a multimanager sequence, how to I get it to toggle the texture/display between a green button and a red button.

More specifically: Let's say that my func_button has a delay-before-reset of 10 seconds. So I want a green button displayed at all times EXCEPT for the 10 seconds that the button has been pushed an is waiting for the reset timer. During that 10 seconds I want a red button displayed to let the person know that the button function is not presently available.

How I am doing this now: I have two func_wall_toggle entities, one with a green button texture, and the other with the corresponding red button texture. I have the flags set opposite so that only the red button func_wall_toggle starts INVISIBLE. Then with a multimanager/multisource I include ...
redbutton 0
redbutton 10
greenbutton 0
greenbutton 10
This seems to do what I want, but with one quirk that I can't figure out. Before the func_button is pushed for the first time the green button is displayed like I want. But the first time that I activate the button the green button is STILL displayed for the 10-second reset period. (It should have toggled to the red button func_wall_toggle.) For the 2nd, 3rd, and all future button activations the red button is displayed properly for that 10-second period. It's only wrong for the first activation.

QUESTION: Is there a better way to accomplish red/green button displays with Worldcraft 3.3 and Zoner's HalfLife Tools? Can you explain why my first button activation does not work properly?

Thanks.

This method is long, complicated and it uses 4 entities instead of 1 in order to activate something. All you need is one func_button. The button requires 2 textures: the name of the first one starts with +a and the name of the other one starts with +0 . You can try this with the textures +0crete_swtch1a and +acrete_swtch1a.

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What are the four entities?
And to which entities do I apply the two textures onto?

(If there is only one func_button, this cannot use two textures, right?)

The four entities are: func_button, 2x func_wall_toggle and multimanager. But the func_button can change it's texture when it gets used: if the button is painted in +0crete_swtch1a, after it gets used it will paint it self in +acrete_swtch1a, OR if the button is painted in +acrete_swtch1a, after it gets used it will paint it self in +0crete_swtch1a. Try it on your own.

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What are you using the two func-wall_toggle entities for?

I thought they would be needed to toggle the view between the two textures, but if the func_button does this already, why are func_wall_toggles needed?

Thanks.

jcw said:
More specifically: Let's say that my func_button has a delay-before-reset of 10 seconds. So I want a green button displayed at all times EXCEPT for the 10 seconds that the button has been pushed an is waiting for the reset timer. During that 10 seconds I want a red button displayed to let the person know that the button function is not presently available.

How I am doing this now: I have two func_wall_toggle entities, one with a green button texture, and the other with the corresponding red button texture. I have the flags set opposite so that only the red button func_wall_toggle starts INVISIBLE. Then with a multimanager/multisource I include ...
redbutton 0
redbutton 10
greenbutton 0
greenbutton 10

I was talking about the method you explained. In it you are using two func_wall_toggle entities.

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Thanks tnkqwe.

Like you said, I was using 4 entities instead of one. (I'm relatively inexperienced as a mapper, as you've probably figured out.)