AS 2.0 : .onMouseMove issues

[moogle711]

Okay, this is my first post and I am very new to Flash and AS still - I am sticking with 2.0 since I know more about that than 3.0 right now.

I would like to make a portion of a site that is stimulated from the mouse being moved. So, as the user moves their mouse I want the timeline to change (for an image will load on each new timeline). So, it will be kind of like a flip book that is activated by the mouse moving. Hopefully that makes sense. Each scene a person will be moving (new picture in a new frame) as the mouse moves up or down.

Here is the code I have so far (my newbie attempt!):

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stop();

var MouseListener:Object = new Object();
var oldY:Number;
MouseListener.onMouseMove = function(){
CheckDir(_ymouse);
}
function CheckDir(newY:Number){

if(oldY > newY){
gotoAndPlay (nextFrame + 1);
}else if(oldY < newY){
gotoAndPlay (prevFrame - 1);
}
oldY = newY;
}
Mouse.addListener( MouseListener);

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If anyone has any idea about what to do, that'd be fantastic.
Thank you!

[nstanziani]

How about this...
set the total number of frames in your main timeline
establish the stage height
when the mouse moves - divide the total number of frames by the stage height THEN divide the mouse location by that to get the correct frame....

stop();

var totFrames:Number = 50;
var stageHeight:Number = Stage.height;

var MouseListener:Object = new Object();
MouseListener.onMouseMove = function() {
    CheckDir(_ymouse);
    
};


function CheckDir(newY:Number) {
    var newFrame:Number = Math.ceil(_ymouse/(stageHeight/totFrames));
    this.gotoAndStop(newFrame);
    
    
    
    myText.text = "frame #"+this._currentframe+" / "+newY+":mouse y";
}
Mouse.addListener(MouseListener); 

check out my website... i put up an example:
my site
once there, click the link: Set the current frame based on the mouse location

[moogle711]

Perfect. It works like a charm!

Thank you so much for your quick and efficient response! *tears of happiness* lol

[nstanziani]

no problem... to show your appreciation you can order some cookies. ;-)

[moogle711]

LoL - I would love to, but give me a couple weeks til I graduate and finish this project! I promise!

But now I have another question. So everything works great, but Im trying to get the actionscript to stop doing it (the Y movement) on a different part of the time line. In this area there is just a shape tween which causes the screen to go white. (Then a movie will play). But, if I move my mouse during the white screen, it goes back to the earlier part of the timeline with the Y movement area. How do I make it stop? stop(); just isn't cutting it. I even told the earlier script to only pay attention to frames 1 - 154, and everything else (the tween and the stop(); white screen) is 155 - 170. So, how is it going back? Is there any way to stop it from going back? Maybe Im totally missing something really simple. But Im totally stumped! Hope you can help me out on this one!

[ZippyDee]

delete MouseListener.onMouseMove();

[moogle711]

That sort of worked. I had to put that in the last frame of the timeline and also put in this:

var totFrames:Number = 0;


Thats what ended up causing the script to stop all together. Without that it didn't work and it would just go back to the beginning of the timeline.

Thanks for all the help!