please help: smoke is pouring from my ears.

[mrjellyd]

hello

this is my example:
http://www.confusement.com/dilemma.html

the problem and question are stated there,
but ill put em here too.

my problem:
i have a invisible button that triggers the object to close,
but if the cursor gets past the trigger button without it
registering the object is stuck.

if move your cursor out past the trigger quickly to stick
the object open. is there another way to trigger the
close down of my object?

is there a way to use the cursor to send _x and _y
positions, check for a constrained area then if the
cursor is out of this area: close the object?

thanks very much.
dave
[Edited by mrjellyd on 05-11-2001 at 02:31 PM]

[assaultan]

you could defintly have a onClipEvent that checks the _ymouse and _xmouse, and if they were out side the area it would close.

Try this first. Put a button underneeth and set rollout properties to close it. That might be a much easier and more accurate way to do it.

[mrjellyd]

i could try that underneath rollOut button, i cant
remember if i tried it, i think the same thing would
happen though ... i would like to try that clipEvent
could you explain it some? it seems like if the
user whipd the cursor out of the object area the
mouse would eventually send its position and
if it was out of a set postion ... i could have the
object close. thanks for your suggestions.
dave

[mrjellyd]

i went and tried that underneath button:
if you rollOver a button that is placed ontop of the
underneath button, the button underneath considers
that a rollOut. the little circles that come out of the big
circle have buttons in them. thats how the smoke
started for me. thanks for your suggestion though.
dave

[msfdisk]

This is from "Still Under The Table"

Make 1 invisible button the full size of your canvas, and copy the same buttom to all 3 movie clips. And give them separate actions to do what you want them to do. That way if the user rolls out to fast there will be a much bigger area of button for their mouse to touch rather than having a chance of just skipping over it.

[mrjellyd]

brandy

so crazy it just might work! its not pretty and kinda
scary because this swf is being loaded into my
main movie and will control other swfs to load.
maybe with the giant button only in the mc it will
be alright ... its worth finding out.

thanks for pointing it out! i had dismissed it several
times, looking at the site im building it seemed like
the buttons would cover up something else or there
would be a finger everywhere you went, but if the
rollOver works you would only see the finger for a
second. because i made the example to explain
my problem it has become the best solution.
i guess looking at things in a stripd down form helps.
http://www.confusement.com/dilemma.html

i would still like to learn how to capture the mouse
position and check it with some sort of if statement.
if anyone has any suggestions on that method i
would really appreciate it. thanks

dave

[56k]

i'm not sure if this is going to solve your problem (i'm not 100% on what you're asking?) .. but can't you use hitTest?

[mrjellyd]

56k:

im not sure what a hitTest does.
maybe i need a kinda reverse hitTest.

whats happening is:
mouse rollOver on main circle causes frame to advance then little circles come out.
then mouse can rollOver little circles, they have/are buttons, then mouse rollOut "beyond boundaries" of little circles causes little circles (a frame advance)to recede back to their orginal tiny hidden state.

this "beyond the boundaries" is what im trying to trigger. the giant button with a rollOver works, but i thought it would be better to check the mouse position with a script that would see that "hey the mouse is outside these boundaries" and that would cause the little circles to recede (my frame advance). therefore if a user moved quickly out past the trigger area eventually they would slow their mouse movement and the mousePos would be detected causing "beyond the boundaries" to happen.
the giant button works because it has a hole cut in it that allows the mouse to travel around the little circles. once the mouse hits the giant square, no matter how fast you move the mouse, youre always on the rollOver of the giant button. any suggestions?

dave


[Edited by mrjellyd on 05-11-2001 at 07:35 PM]