I think the explanation stated that _root is not in fact a MovieClip
in the same sense. onMouseDown works because it fires globally in
response to the mouse, not because _root is a MovieClip.
Can I ask, why do you need to use onPress and onRelease on _root
anyway? Is there some other solution? If you use a release handler on
_root it will make the release handlers on all nested MovieClips
inaccessible which seems like a bad way to go to me...
On 09/11/2006, at 3:19 PM, John VanHorn wrote:
no, no.....
i totally understand the difference between onMouseDown and onPress
for
movieclips. i am saying only one works when placed on the root. the
player
seems to ignore _root.onPress or _root.onRelease.....which makes no
sense to
me because it is a movieclip and the events will work when assigned
to any
other movie clip. even using a mouse listener does not work. i even
tried
setting the hitArea of the root, but to no evail. when the stage is
clicked,
onPress and onRelease will not fire. you dont even get a hand cursor.
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