I’m not sure how to even put the question but my situation is this:
I have a 400x300 area that needs to detect a rollover and animate several buttons, text fields, etc. sliding into it when the mouse rolls into the area so that they can be manipulated, and animate them sliding out when the mouse rolls out of the area to hide them from view. (example here: http://redruin.com/video/MultiPlayer/)
What is the best way to do this? The only way I have got it to work so far is by using a listener to track mouse position, but it’s not reliable since you can move the mouse quickly in some areas of the movie and the listener doesn’t catch it.
Someone elsewhere suggested using an empty movie clip to control buttons and such beneath it, but I’m not sure how to go about that since I can’t even seem to resize an empty movie clip, though I haven’t tried it with actionscript, and I would assume it would have the same problems with losing focus when the other buttons are rolled over, or blocking them.
Can anyone tell me the best/easiest way to do this. It seems like I must be missing something obvious, it feels like there must be a way to detect rollover/rollout in an area without overriding buttons and fields within that area, and I just don’t know what it is.
Any help you could give me would be intensely appreciated!
(I’m using Flash CS3 and Actionscript 2 btw)