Thanks Karl.
I was experiencing the problem on Firefox 3 (running on Debian x64
[its called Ice weasel] , Mac OS X and Windows] . I do not get the
issue with Safari 4 on my Mac Pro as well. Thanks for pointing this
out [please excuse me for not reading your reply carefully].
Very interesting to see that Flash can detect a mouse_up from anywhere
on your screen as long as mouse_down originated within the player
without using mouse_leave.
Many thanks for the pointers. Very much appreciated.
Regards,
Joseph Masoud
On 11 Jun 2009, at 22:59, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Joseph Masoud wrote:
Thanks Karl.
To Reproduce the first problem:
1. Click (and hold) on the ScrollBar Thumb.
2. Drag the thumb around.
3. Move the cursor outside the stage i.e. to the white area
surrounding the Flash player.
4. Release the mouse.
You will notice that the thumb remains active and if you hover back
into the stage, it will start moving.
Yes that is what I did and I am saying that problem did not happen
for me. When I moved the mouse to the white part and released, it
did loose focus.
I have [at last] solved this problem, however I am unsure that this
is the quickest solution. I've customized the ScrollPane,
BaseScrollPane and ScrollBar classes. Now, when the user clicks on
the thumb, a new listener is added to the stage, that will be able
to handle a mouse_up, even if it doesn't occur on the stage. The
scroll bar no longer "sticks" when the user releases the mouse
outside the stage. I was hoping there was a quicker way to do
this, however, it's taken a day of snooping around component source
code to resolve the issue. If anyone knows a better way, I'm all
ears. I've added the new player (version -0.0.2) [ http://www.mavedu.com/viewer
].
1 down, about a thousand more to go.
Like you have suggested, I want users to be able to use their mouse
wheel when they are viewer the document. The other thing, if you
look at the Scribd player, you can drag a document if you click on
the grey area around it. I'm not particularly fond of that,
but I don't want users thinking "But the Scribd player can do that".
Wouldnt loose sleep over it.. :P
Unfortunately, whether it's a bug or not, people are used to it and
I feel it is somewhat necessary to accommodate for that.
Personally I stay away from componnents of any kind. I have a scroll
code I use with MCs that works great and then I can control
everything aobut it and the surrounding areas.
Look into (on google or some search engine):
Inertia Scroller -
(This is an old code I found back when I started so it may not be
available anymore)
MouseScrollWheel
Its a AS2 and AS3 code for enabling the users mouse wheel and seems
to work for both MAC and PC users. You can alos set up a function to
do horizontal scrolling by repourposing the code with the x and y
references edited.
B.O.L.,
Karl
Many thanks,
Joseph Masoud
On 11 Jun 2009, at 06:28, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
Yes you can do that and that will solve your problem of no
mouseover on the grey areas.
I was able to drag the scroll pane button and let go off stage and
it lost focus. Is that what you mean by the thumb? Im on a MAC
Powerbook G4 using Safari 4.
You could use a "track mouse" _x and _y script that knows the
boundaries of your viewer and force it to stopDrag when it goes
past a point.
One other idea (but may be too much at this point) but to add
mouse wheel functionality to your grey rectangle and loaded
movieclips.
Then if the user has one he can just hover and scroll... :D
Question, why do you want the grey area to be a mouse_down?
I would think this would be good for what you have so that the
user only selects the page when they want to drag,
otherwise they may not see that you can drag the page because the
mouse will always be in an "over state".
JAT
Very nice though..
Karl
On Jun 10, 2009, at 11:41 PM, Joseph Masoud wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm currently working on a document viewer, a very buggy version
of which can be seen on:
http://www.mavedu.com/viewer/
Two issues (among hundreds):
1. If you drag the mouse scroll thumb, and release the mouse
outside the stage, the thumb doesn't lose focus. This is a
scrollPane UI component. I think I need to use the mouse_leave
event on the stage, however I'm not quite sure how remove the
focus from the scroll thumb without creating/extending the
scrollPane component.
2. The movie clip within the scrollPane is draggable. The movie
clip has external swfs loaded into it via the Loader class.
There is a space of 20px between each swf. How would I be able
to make the mouse_down register when the user clicks on the space
between the swfs? Perhaps by adding a transparent rectangle in
the background of the movie clip?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks,
Joseph
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