Re: FLASH: Trapping clicks

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 05:50 PM 1/27/00 , you wrote:


>Marc--

>Is there any way you could put the invisible button in, and still have the

>buttons on the lower level perform the movie clips in the over state--but

>just not be "clickable?"


A button is either active or not. But as someone else suggested, you could 

have the lower level movie go to a frame where the buttons exist in 

different instances, and you could apply a different set of actions to 

those buttons. The higher level movie can tellTarget the lower level to go 

to that frame. Whatever action exits the higher level movie (or parks it 

ina  blank frame) could also return the lower level movie to the earlier 

instances of the buttons.




> >Rephrased, is there a way to trap mouse clicks so that a button in one

> >level won't be triggered by a click on it when a higher level covers the

> >stage?

>

>One way is to make a stage-size invisible button in the higher level movie.

>This will prevent lower buttons from registering. It will also, however,

>give the "hand" cursor wherever the mouse pointer goes.



Marc Hoffman


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