Follow Mouse (only in certain area)?

[codeoverride]

I found several tutorials that work great for having movie objects follow the mouse but I haven't been able to find one that restricts it to only a certain area.

This is one of the tutorials that I was looking at:
http://www.spoono.com/flash/tutorial...rial.php?id=24

What I basically want to do is have this hanging lamp tilt either left or right depending or where the mouse comes from. Hope it makes sense! Thanks in advance

It's the red lamp on my website: www.buccianti.net

[nunomira]

hi,

Here's a simple example which uses the one you linked to:

// coordinates that define a rectangle
var top:Number = 0;
var bottom:Number = 200;
var left:Number = 0;
var right:Number = 400;

// mouse position
var xMouse:Number;
var yMouse:Number;

ball_mc.onEnterFrame = function()
{
    // if the mouse is withing the rectangle
    if (_xmouse > left && _xmouse < right && _ymouse > top && _ymouse < bottom)
    {
        xMouse = _xmouse;
        yMouse = _ymouse;
    }
    
    // if the mouse coordinates exist
    if (xMouse != undefined && yMouse != undefined)
    {
        if(Math.abs(xMouse - this._x) < 1) {
            this._x = xMouse;
            this._y = yMouse;
        } else {
            this._x -= (this._x-xMouse) / 6;
            this._y -= (this._y-yMouse) / 6;
        }
    }
};