RE: [Flashcoders] determining which object is displayed at a givenpoint

2007-02-06 Thread Mike Mountain
 What he's saying is that _droptarget will tell you exactly what is at
the top under the users mouse - but in order to use it you have to use
startDrag to fool it in to working. Maybe you could drag an invisible
clip around or something.

M

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 I don't understand what you're suggesting.  The user is not 
 dragging the movieclip.
 
 The idea is to write a function with a signature like:
 function getObjectAtPoint(xmouse:Number, ymouse:Number):Object


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Re: [Flashcoders] determining which object is displayed at a givenpoint

2007-02-06 Thread Vishal Kapur

Ok, got it.  Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried this but it doesn't
work with the third-party flash movie I am looking at.  They have an
movie clip with _alpha set to 0 that covers the stage at a depth
higher than all other visible elements.  As a result _droptarget is
always set to that object.  What I need is something that takes into
account visibility.

Any other thoughts on this?

-- Vishal


On 2/6/07, Mike Mountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 What he's saying is that _droptarget will tell you exactly what is at
the top under the users mouse - but in order to use it you have to use
startDrag to fool it in to working. Maybe you could drag an invisible
clip around or something.

M

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
 Of Vishal Kapur
 Sent: 06 February 2007 16:03
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 Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] determining which object is
 displayed at a givenpoint

 I don't understand what you're suggesting.  The user is not
 dragging the movieclip.

 The idea is to write a function with a signature like:
 function getObjectAtPoint(xmouse:Number, ymouse:Number):Object


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Re: [Flashcoders] determining which object is displayed at a givenpoint

2007-02-06 Thread Alain Rousseau

You have your answer in your question ! :)
the _alpha is set to 0, thus invisible but still with a _visible = true 
property.


So check for also the _alpha value, not only the _visible value


Vishal Kapur wrote:

Ok, got it.  Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried this but it doesn't
work with the third-party flash movie I am looking at.  They have an
movie clip with _alpha set to 0 that covers the stage at a depth
higher than all other visible elements.  As a result _droptarget is
always set to that object.  What I need is something that takes into
account visibility.

Any other thoughts on this?

-- Vishal


On 2/6/07, Mike Mountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 What he's saying is that _droptarget will tell you exactly what is at
the top under the users mouse - but in order to use it you have to use
startDrag to fool it in to working. Maybe you could drag an invisible
clip around or something.

M

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
 Of Vishal Kapur
 Sent: 06 February 2007 16:03
 To: Flashcoders mailing list
 Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] determining which object is
 displayed at a givenpoint

 I don't understand what you're suggesting.  The user is not
 dragging the movieclip.

 The idea is to write a function with a signature like:
 function getObjectAtPoint(xmouse:Number, ymouse:Number):Object


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Re: [Flashcoders] determining which object is displayed at a givenpoint

2007-02-06 Thread Vishal Kapur

I should have clarified: in the original problem with 2 conflicting
objects, _alpha is also set to 100 for both objects.


On 2/6/07, Alain Rousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

You have your answer in your question ! :)
the _alpha is set to 0, thus invisible but still with a _visible = true
property.

So check for also the _alpha value, not only the _visible value


Vishal Kapur wrote:
 Ok, got it.  Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried this but it doesn't
 work with the third-party flash movie I am looking at.  They have an
 movie clip with _alpha set to 0 that covers the stage at a depth
 higher than all other visible elements.  As a result _droptarget is
 always set to that object.  What I need is something that takes into
 account visibility.

 Any other thoughts on this?

 -- Vishal


 On 2/6/07, Mike Mountain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  What he's saying is that _droptarget will tell you exactly what is at
 the top under the users mouse - but in order to use it you have to use
 startDrag to fool it in to working. Maybe you could drag an invisible
 clip around or something.

 M

  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
  Of Vishal Kapur
  Sent: 06 February 2007 16:03
  To: Flashcoders mailing list
  Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] determining which object is
  displayed at a givenpoint
 
  I don't understand what you're suggesting.  The user is not
  dragging the movieclip.
 
  The idea is to write a function with a signature like:
  function getObjectAtPoint(xmouse:Number, ymouse:Number):Object


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