animating with cursor on stage

[Skippers]

How do you call a movie clip to animate but only while the cursor is in the stage area?

[cmay@coke]

I would use the rollover features of a button. You can make the an invisible button by only having a shape only on the hit area frame.

Or you could use the mouseX and mouseY properties. Set up a timer object to check the mouseX and mouseY every so often.

[Skippers]

so how does the invisible button call the animation to work once it is hovered by the cursor?

[random101187]

if(mouseX<stage.stageWidth && mouseX>0 && mouseY<stage.stageHeight && mouseY>0){
//execute desired code
}

[Skippers]

and this code has to be on the main timeline rather than on the button in AS3?

[random101187]

yep, that will make sure that whatever your desired code is it only executes while the mouse is within the bounds of the stage. You'll probably want it to be in a function that handles an ENTER_FRAME event so that it checks for each frame. Savvy?