At 6:26 PM -0800 1/8/01, Stephane Comeau wrote:
>Try putting a sprite on the bottom channel of your MIAW movie which contains
>a hollow rectangle shape sized to the MIAW. On this sprite add a behavior
>to catch the events:
>
>on mouseEnter me
> nothing
>end
>
>on mouseLeave me
> nothing
>end
>
>etc....
>
>I think this should block the stage movie from knowing about the mouse.
>
This was my first thought. But unfortunately, it doesn't work.
Rollovers still go through to the stage.
At 6:38 PM -0800 1/8/01, Mark MacKenzie wrote:
>Couple of approaches come to mind ...
>
>In the behaviors on the buttons on the stage, you could try:
>
> on mouseEnter
> if (the activeWindow) <> (the stage) then exit
> -- rollover stuff
> end
I can't do this because I'm using some of the same behaviors (e.g.,
generalized button behavior) in both the MIAW and the stage movie.
>
>Or, perhaps easier, when you open the MIAW, put an invisible quickdraw
>rectangle, as high and as tall as the stage, on top of all the other
>sprites on the stage, and use it to consume your mouseEnter events:
>
> on mouseEnter
> nothing
> end
>
>Of course, when you close the MIAW, you'll want to remove the quickdraw
>sprite as well.
>
I guess this is what I'll have to do. Since the user can move this
MIAW, I also have to add code that moves the quickdraw rectangle when
the user moves the MIAW.
I consider this a bug in Director and have submitted a bug report to
wish-director.
Thanks,
Irv
> >
>> I have a movie in a window that I bring up over the stage.
>> Everything is working fine, except that when I move the cursor within
>> the MIAW and is also over something on the stage that has a rollover
>> behavior (for example a wide button), that rollover behavior is
>> triggered and the thing on the stage goes into it's roll state.
>>
>> Is there any way to stop this? The MIAW cannot be modal - I need to
>> have the ability for the user to click on things on the stage while
>> the MIAW is up. I am just looking for a way to block the mouse from
> > being "seen" by the stage movie while it is over the MIAW.
>>
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