To make your component receive mouse events even in its transparent parts, fill those areas using 'graphics' with an alpha of 0. The Flash Player's mouse-detection logic doesn't care whether the pixels are opaque or transparent, it only cares that they have been "drawn". - Gordon
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roman Protsiuk Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 8:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Mouse events in non-drawn areas? You can pass along this events to your component from the application itself. E.g. // in application: private function onMouseClick(event : MouseEvent) : void { yourComponent.onMouseClick(event); } R. On 1/2/07, Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Hi folks, I have a component which is a subclass of UIComponent. I would like it to receive mouse events (MouseDown, MouseUp, and MouseMove, specifically) even in areas where there are no children and I have not drawn using this.graphics. Is this possible? Do any of you have ideas on how to do it or where to find more info? (I could work around it by drawing the background manually, but that seems awkward. I was hoping for some kind of switch or setting. This is Flex 2.) Thanks for any help, Reid
