I can’t seem to progress beyond n00b in this object oriented, encapsulated, event listening nightmare of a language, despite reading quite a lot. Maybe I’m stupid or just suck at programming.
In an arbitrary test example, want a single-frame mc to sit dormant on the stage until you click/hold the mouse on top of it. At that point it should drag until you release the mouse, then lie dormant again where you left it. Seems like you need an enter frame listener plus a mouse down and mouse up listener. So that’s like 3 entire bloated functions? My gut instinct is to want to compose with if’s/while’s and procedurally. Like IF the mouse clicks down, do this… Seems all these event listener functions spreads the code so many things happen simultaneously or something so its hard to keep track of what the code is doing when… I might have just written nonsense because I have little clue. The entire flash help files are non-newbie friendly, so I can’t do anything until I see someone else use an example. My best strategy so far is just randomly reading threads on this forum and copying/trying random code I come across.
Sorry, I like to complain.
closest I got (only follows, ignores clicks):
var mySquare = new square()
stage.addChild(mySquare)
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, followMouse)
function followMouse(event:Event){
mySquare.x = mouseX
mySquare.y = mouseY
}
