Re: FLASH: Calendar (was forgotten thread - shift-click??)

[Nathan Dicken]

Just disregard this message...  I was having some problems with some

messages going through and sent this one this morning.  Just realized that

the one sent last night went through :)


-Nathan




>Glenn,

>

>As was mentioned in another response, you can't monitor the Shift key being

>pressed in Flash, but you can specify other keys to do the same function.

>The interesting part in this comes when tying to monitor the key release,

>which isn't built into Flash but you can mimic it...  Check out the

>following demo and let me know if that's close to what you're thinking of.

>You can use the TAB key in place of the Shift key for now to span between

>dates (just press TAB before clicking)...

>

>http://www.fusionary.com/flashdemos/calendar/

>

>Right now, if you switch months, it loses the data that is stored in the

>days from the previous month, but that could be changed fairly easily just

>based on how the data is stored.

>

>The format above is esentially a key press, then click your start/end dates

>type format.  In answer to your question regarding passing the mouse

>actions to subsequent mc's in a click-and-drag format, once one button has

>been activated (Press, Roll Over, etc.), that is the only button that can

>be activated.  Esentially, what you'd need to do is set the start date on

>pressing and releasing the mouse (maybe hold the press using a delay) and

>then any adjacent rollovers can be activated after that.  You'd need to

>include some script or checking to make sure which direction from the start

>date you are rolling over and only add dates to the highlighted one if they

>are one date further in that direction.

>

>Hope this helps...

>Nathan Dicken



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