ive made sure there was content - movieclips and shapes - on the root when i
have tried this...nothing works....and _root.useHandCursor seems to be
ignored also.
On 11/9/06, Matthias Dittgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You probably just need some content in your _root!
onPress, onRelease etc. do only work if the mouse is over some content
of the MovieClip, even of _root.
For better understanding: If you have a filled circle as movieClip,
onPress events work only within the circle, not in the "corners" of
its bounding rectangle box. So onPress is working on _root only, if it
has some content you can click on.
you should see a handcursor above clickable movieclip instances or
even _root, when you set _root.useHandCursor = true (default).
hth,
Matthias
2006/11/9, John VanHorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> i know it doesnt make any sense to use onPress on the root because of
> children, and nested mc's, its just something i ran into today. i was
> debugging something, and i arbitrarily chose _root.onPress to fire off a
> trace. when that didnt work, i figured out that _root.onPress was being
> ignored.
>
> what makes no sense, is that _root IS a movie clip.....or so i thought
it is
> supposed to be....it at least acts like one and has all the methods and
> properties of a MovieClip.
>
> trace(_root instanceof MovieClip) //traces true
>
> and heres something else i tried:
> in a new flash document, on the root timeline, i put:
>
> this.onPress = function(){
> trace(this);
> }
>
> published, and nothing happened. i then created another new document,
made
> an empty movie clip and loaded the other movie with the code above, and
it
> worked....the onPress was being assigned to that movie.
>
> it just seems weird to me that onPress is a property of the movieclip
class,
> but just doesnt seem to work with the _root movieclip.
>
> On 11/8/06, Reuben Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > 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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