Need some help with AS for MouseFollower

1

Hi everybody…

I’ve used the following AS to make a little thingy follow the mouse on the x axis, but i’d like to specify a range, where it starts to follow, and where i stops to follow… how would i go about doing that?

onClipEvent (load) {
	_x = 5;
	speed = 5;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	endX = _root._xmouse;
	_x += (endX-_x)/speed;
}

any takers :sigh: ?

2

K, i putt a mask on it. And that helpt (a little). But i want the mouse follower to STOP within the " boundry box"… anyone? :book:

3

K, i putt a mask on it. And that helpt (a little). But i want the mouse follower to STOP within the " boundry box"… anyone? :book:

4

ok, here is a link to something like what i’m after… insede on the bottom, see what i meen?
:mu:

5

if you want to speciffy a range you can simply do something like this

onClipEvent (load) {
	_x = 5;
	speed = 5;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	if (_root._xmouse < 500 && _root._xmouse > 100){
\\ will set the endX on _root._xmouse only if _x is between 100 and 500
endX = _root._xmouse;}
else {
endX = 50; \\ else it returns in a 50 position
}
	_x += (endX-_x)/speed;
}

But on the link you posted it’s not a real mouse follow. I mean that rounded rectangle thingy does not actually follow the mouse, but rather focuses on the coordinates of a button.
So… you should keep the onEnterframe only and set the endX on (rollOver) of your buttons and then on rollout you should set endX to a neutral position.

onClipEvent (load) {
	_x = 5;
	speed = 5;
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
	_x += (endX-_x)/speed;
}

and for buttons


on (rollOver) {
endX = this._x; \\hopeing that this._x is in the center :)
}
on (rollOut) {
endX = 50; \\ whatever the x coordinates of the neutral position would be
}

Let me see what you manage to do out of this effect :).