Action When Mouse Leaves Flash Movie Area

programming flash
1

Hello All!

I’ve got a flash movie that is a menu with a photo that is approximatly 700x300. I want an action that will trigger when the mouse leaves the flash movie all together. Is this possibe?

Is there a way to have have my movie know when the mouse is not in it and trigger something?

2

There is no good way until AS3, so either make the switch now or use a big transparent button.

Or you might be able to use JS to detect when the div the SWF is in loses focus. Not really sure if this is possible though.

3

[QUOTE=TheCanadian;1985502]Or you might be able to use JS to detect when the div the SWF is in loses focus. Not really sure if this is possible though.[/QUOTE]Wouldn’t you have to actually click outside the SWF to lose focus?

4

^Yes you would but theres probably a way to check mouse cords and if they change in the JS then the mouse is outside of the flash.

5

I used the wrong term, you can use this script to detect when the mouse leaves the div:

In FLA:

//requires TextField with instance name mouseStatus
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
ExternalInterface.addCallback("mouseLeave", this, function ():Void {
 this.mouseStatus.text = "mouse is out";
});
ExternalInterface.addCallback("mouseEnter", this, function ():Void {
 this.mouseStatus.text = "mouse is in";
});

In HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 <head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
  <title>Detecting When Mouse Leaves Stage</title>
  <script type="text/javascript">
   function callEIMethod(name, method) {
    window[name][method]();
   }
  </script>
 </head>
 <body>
   <object onmouseout="callEIMethod('mouseLeaveExample', 'mouseLeave')" onmouseover="callEIMethod('mouseLeaveExample', 'mouseEnter')" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="182" height="118" id="mouseLeaveExample" align="middle">
   <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
   <param name="movie" value="mouseLeaveExample.swf" />
   <param name="quality" value="high" />
   <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
   <embed src="mouseLeaveExample.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="182" height="118" name="mouseLeaveExample" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
  </object>
 </body>
</html>

:hoser:

6

okay everyone is getting extremly complex for no reason why not something like
if(_xmouse<=5 or _xmouse>=690){
/actions/
}
would that not work if you just went a little bit inside of the borders and repeat that code for both x and y mouse coordinates. i dont see why that wont work.

7

Sticking with the big invisible button/movieclip is easiest as it avoids any cross-browser issues, and makes it simple to trigger events.