How to hide images without using hide statement?

[DNAniel213]

Hey guys! Good....whatevertimeitisatyourplace!

How do I hide images without using the hide statement?

Like:
show LOL at right with dissolve
hide LOL
show LOL1 at left with dissolve
hide LOL1
show LOL2 at left with dissolve
hide LOL2

Put into example that LOL is a sprite and 1 and 2 are different emotions.
Thanks!

[Asceai]

By giving them different names

Instead of calling your other expressions LOL1 and LOL2 call them LOL A and LOL B (I dunno if you can have just a number as part of a name- otherwise LOL 1 and LOL 2)

image LOL = "lol.png"
image LOL A = "lol1.png"
image LOL B = "lol2.png"

This way you can show LOL A and it will hide LOL, and so on.

Then you can just:
show LOL at right with dissolve
"..."
show LOL A at left with dissolve
"..."
show LOL B at left with dissolve

Here's the relevant part of the quickstart

The first part of an image name is the image tag. If an image is being shown, and another image with the same tag is on the screen, then the image that's on the screen is replaced with the one being shown.

[DNAniel213]

Wai.... I can't believe I missed this logic.
I can reason out that the quickstart didn't specify this though x) (No,DNAniel. this is your fault)

Thanks a lot!!!