Re: FLASH: Position detection still not quick enough. Java Script out there?

[Gregg Caines]

I haven't been following this thread from the beginning,

so please forgive any excessive stupidity....


Why not just make a small, invisible, draggable MC

to follow the mouse?  You could detect the coordinates

of the mouse that way (in Flash 4), if that would help,

but an even better method would be to put an invisible

button in that MC and on 'roll out' or 'drag out', you know

that the pointer has left the SWF (because it can't leave

without rolling out or dragging out).


This method should work in Flash 4 and 5.  I've used it

successfully in Flash 5 to experiment with changing the

mouse pointer, but the only thing that is Flash 5-specific

is turning off the visibility of the default pointer.


HTH!


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

> Cheers Paul but no joy

>

> I have implemented the roll-out action to a button covering the whole

movie.

> It works a bit better but I still have a problem.

>

> I think I forgot to mention that the movie is in a page that is in a frame

> that is only the height of the movie.  So basically rolling out of the

movie

> means that you are rolling out of the page.

>

> I like the idea of F5s mouse x & y pos but don't want to completely kill

off

> viewers by limiting to F5 players.

>

> Is there a Java Script that can detect the position of the mouse on the

> screen and compare it with the screen co-ordinates of the frame containing

> the SWF and then trigger an action in the SWF as a result of moving the

> mouse outside of those frame co-ordinates??

>

> I will post this question as a fresh string

>

> TIA if you know of any such script.




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