Other than onPress/Release you can try onMouseDown / HitTest combination. It's not quite clear what you're trying to do though. or maybe i'm reading it in <dumb mode> right now.
On 10/19/06, Yehia Shouman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, what you wanna do is to send Windows messages, this is not supported in flash, and I know nothing of a workaround. Sorry Yehia On 10/19/06, Vishal Kapur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll ask the question a different way: what are all the ways that a > mouse click event can be handled in a flash movie? (other than > defining an onPress/onRelease callback) > > -- Vishal > > > On 10/17/06, Vishal Kapur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to solve the problem of generically simulating mouse clicks > > in a running flash movie. So, I'd like to be able to write a > > function that when invoked with the targetPath of the flash object to > > be clicked, would be able to simulate a mouse click on that object as > > if a user had actually clicked it. I should also mention that the > > technique needs to work with arbitrary 3rd-party flash movies (so I > > don't have control to change the code). > > > > The simplest thing to try is just to try to invoke the > > onPress/onRelease callbacks on the target object. This works > > sometimes. However, in some cases it doesn't quite simulate a real > > mouse click. In particular, I seem to have trouble simulating clicks > > on components (in a List component, for example, the selected row will > > get highlighted but the handler that does further processing and > > refreshes the UI doesn't seem to get called). > > > > Currently I am (sort of) working around this by getting the > > coordinates of the center of the target object and using the Win32 > > api's to move the mouse pointer and simulate the windows mouse down/up > > events. As you can imagine this is not truly generic (doesn't handle > > scrollbars, movielclips obscured by other objects, etc). > > > > Any thoughts on this? Anyone with previous experience with this or > > ideas on a better way to generically simulate a click event in flash? > > > > Thanks, > > Vishal > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > http://www.figleaf.com > http://training.figleaf.com > _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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