Using a rollOver while the mouse is down

[FreddyZ]

Hello,

Here is what I wish to do: if the user presses a movie clip (this.onPress) a new menu is created as long as the mouse button is still pressed down. So basically I want some onRollOver actions for each of the new movie clips in this new menu. But I have found that onRollOver does not work, since the mouse is still depressed. Any Ideas?

[whispers]

have you tried hitTest or hitArea?

[Dricciotti]

hitTest() is a great way to do that. You could also use a combination of onPress and onRelease to store into a variable whether the clip is pressed down.

code:

---

mc.onPress = function()

{

  pressedDown = true;

}

mc.onRelease = function()

{

  pressedDown = false;

}

---

[whispers]

Hey Dricciotti-

if your surfing the board looking to help! (hint hint)

I got some issues I still need help with:

Print: http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=669624
and a
Shared Object: http://www.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=669634

Thanks (hope your around) noone has touched the printing problem in days! LOL

[FreddyZ]

I guess what I'm having troubles with is the hitTest method
When a certain movie clip is 'pressed' this function is called:

	for (var i = 1; i<=3; i++) {
		for (var j = 1; j<=3; j++) {
			var t = 1;
			over = hold.attachMovie("squareClip", "overClip"+t, l);
			over._x = 30*i-75;
			over._y = 30*j-75;
                        t++

what I want is: while the user still has the mouse depressed, they can scroll over this 3x3 square, and upon release something happens. How would I use the hitTest method for each of these "overClip"s ?

For reference, I am making a sudoku game, and i want for this menu of 9 choices for numbers to appear when the user clicks on an empty space.