How to use cursor position to trigger action?

[worldly1]

Hello All,

I’m fairly new to Flash 8 (Pro) and have used only very basic actionscript.

I have made a navigation menu bar with fly-out sub-menus and have everything working correctly. Now I want to put an animated gradient background movie clip behind the menu and set it up so that when the cursor is over/within the boundary of the gradient clip it will trigger it to gotoandplay x frame, and when the cursor leaves the area, trigger another gotoandplay event.

It seems I can’t set it up with onrollover and onrollout actionscript because of the menu that sits above it, so it seems I need some way or work around to know when the cursor enters and leaves an area or set of coordinates (or in this case is above a certain y coordinate) and trigger.

I found this site

http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/buttoncapturing/

which I thought might have the answer but I’m not advanced enough to follow it.

Any advice or direction will be much appreciated.

Scott

 

[oldnewbie]

You need to use a hitTest on the movie clip...

Can you post a link to your .fla?

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[worldly1]

Thanks for responding! I posted this question on another forum and a kind soul hacked out this code for me:

onClipEvent(load){
ovr = 0
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true))if(ovr == 0){
gotoAndPlay(2)
ovr = 1
}
if(!this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true))if(ovr == 1){
this.gotoAndPlay(11)
ovr = 0
}
}

I don't fully understand why, yet, but it works like a charm!

Thanks, Scott