Buttonless mouse over????

[sevynos]

Hi,

I'm relatively new to Flash programming and I have a little problem here:

I'm working on a space game with a galaxy map. My map have 300 independent zones each opening another map with a lot of zones too. Each zones are simple squares.

My question is: Is there a way to get a mouse over on a zone bring some effect without having to create a button? I don't really want to create 300 buttons for the main map and then some thousands buttons for the secondary level maps!

Thanks

[jkell]

Hi,

I'm relatively new to Flash programming and I have a little problem here:

I'm working on a space game with a galaxy map. My map have 300 independent zones each opening another map with a lot of zones too. Each zones are simple squares.

My question is: Is there a way to get a mouse over on a zone bring some effect without having to create a button? I don't really want to create 300 buttons for the main map and then some thousands buttons for the secondary level maps!

Thanks

You can add "rollover" interactivity to a MovieClip. If you put all the zones in a single MovieClip and call that big MovieClip "allZones" then the code below e.target method to assign your roll over state to the child clips.

allZones.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, overIt);
allZones.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, outIt);

function overIt(e:MouseEvent):void
{
e.target.alpha = .8;
}
function outIt(e:MouseEvent):void
{
e.target.alpha = 1;
}