Mouse over a certain place to get text

[celebor]

Hello. I'm working on someone's Flash project and my task is to add roll over text to all the buttons in the project. The problem is I can't use the actual buttons because the are underneath some other animation. What I want to do is to add roll over text using the coordinates of the button but not the actual button. Is that possible?

Thanks in advance,

Celebor

[a_modified_dog]

use the Mouse.addListener method

example - button at x:50, y:50, width:100, height:50
main timeline code -

var mouseListener:Object = new Object();

mouseListener.onMouseMove = function() {
if((_xmouse>50 && _xmouse<150) && (_ymouse>50 && _ymouse<100)){
trace("show text");
}
};

Mouse.addListener(mouseListener); 

btn.onRelease = function(){ trace("button");}

[celebor]

use the Mouse.addListener method

example - button at x:50, y:50, width:100, height:50
main timeline code -

var mouseListener:Object = new Object();

mouseListener.onMouseMove = function() {
if((_xmouse>50 && _xmouse<150) && (_ymouse>50 && _ymouse<100)){
trace("show text");
}
};

Mouse.addListener(mouseListener); 

btn.onRelease = function(){ trace("button");}

Thanks for the reply! I used your code and it worked in sort of different way then I wanted When I mouse over the spot indicated in the script a flash "Output" window pop ups showing the text. What I'm looking for is like sort of text box floating at your mouse point with text.

PS
I didn't reply for so long because I broke my leg and didn't go to work.

[a_modified_dog]

the output window opens as a result of using trace()
you need to replace trace() with the code you use to show your text box

[celebor]

I see!

This is the code I use to make it work:

};
captionFN = function (showCaption, captionText, bName) {

if (showCaption) {

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("hoverCaption", this.getNextHighestDepth());
cap.desc.text = captionText;
cap._width = 7*cap.desc.text.length;
cap._alpha = 75;
//
if ((bName._width+bName._x+cap._width)>Stage.width) {

xo = -2-cap._width;
yo = -17;

} else {

xo = 2;
yo = -17;

}
hoverCaption.onEnterFrame = function() {

cap._x = _root._xmouse+xo;
cap._y = _root._ymouse+yo;
cap._visible = true;

};

} else {

delete hoverCaption.onEnterFrame;
cap._visible = false;

}

};

And this part to link to specific buttons:

};
binder_btn.onRollOver = function() {

captionFN(true, "TEXT HERE", this);
this.onRollOut = function() {

captionFN(false);

};

The thing is, this code works on buttons, not coordinates. Can you please tell me how I would merge your and this codes?

[a_modified_dog]

// binder_btn at x:50, y:50, width:100, height:50

mouseListener.onMouseMove = function() { 
if((_xmouse>50 && _xmouse<150) && (_ymouse>50 && _ymouse<100)){ 
captionFN(true, "TEXT HERE", binder_btn);
} else {
captionFN(false);
}
}; 

[celebor]

// binder_btn at x:50, y:50, width:100, height:50

mouseListener.onMouseMove = function() { 
if((_xmouse>50 && _xmouse<150) && (_ymouse>50 && _ymouse<100)){ 
captionFN(true, "TEXT HERE", binder_btn);
} else {
captionFN(false);
}
}; 

Sadly it's not working. By not working I mean nothing happens at all. I tried fiddling with the code but the amount of syntax errors I got is unspeakable. I think that the code I provided relies on the actual button too much. Since I can't work with buttons because of the way this project was done (very annoying -_-) I found better code that might suit yours much better. Here it is:

hoverover.onRollOver = function() {
	this.onEnterFrame = function () {
	caption._alpha += (100-caption._alpha)/3;
caption._x -= (caption._x-_xmouse)/2;
	caption._y -= (caption._y-_ymouse)/2;
	}
};
hoverover.onRollOut = function() {
	this.onEnterFrame = function() {
		caption._alpha += (0-caption._alpha)/3;
	};
};

Again I'm not sure how to apply it using coordinates although I will try to do it myself. But it would be very nice if you could help me once again! Thank you!

[celebor]

Problem resolved! Thank you for your time!