Flash MX - Mouse Event

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June 24th, 2002, 03:34 AM

ryan_b

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Flash MX - Mouse Event

Hi,

Recently upgraded to MX, only to find to my horror that the flash5 version of doing 'onMouseover tell target' doesn't appear to be obvious in the new MX actionscript. Anybody know how I can set a movieclip to tell target via a rollover using the new actionscript?

Cheers,
Ryan

June 26th, 2002, 09:06 PM

ptolemy

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You can get easy mouse over detection for any movie clip by creating a prototype function for the MovieClip class. I generally do the following:

1. Define the prototype in the first frame of the root level

Code:

MovieClip.prototype.mouseOver = function() {
  if (this.hitTest (_root._x, _root._y) == true) {
    return true;
  } else {
    return false;
  }
}

2. Now every movie clip on the stage has the ability to call mouseOver() on itself, which will return either true or false.

For example, a movie could perform these actions:

Code:

onClipEvent (mouseMove) {
  if (this.mouseOver() == true) {
    ...
  }
}

Or to make a movie clip act like a button, you could do this:

Code:

onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
  if (this.mouseOver() == true) {
    ...
  }
}

Matt

July 8th, 2002, 04:05 PM

exorcyze

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Use these:

Code:

mc1.onRollOver = function() {
	trace(this._name);
}
mc2.onRollOver = function() {
	trace(this._name);
}

The mouseOver event(s) are listener-based. That's why they weren't working the way you expected them to. You can look up listeners in the reference panel for more information.

Hope that helps...

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