long press on button

[radiostar]

Hey everyone,

I'm wondering if someone can help me out with this one. What I want to do is create a button that performs the following:

- press then release = Function1;
- press and hold = Function2;

I have to make it work on a Flash 5 player so using setInterval is unfortunately out. Any suggestions?

Here's what I've tried to do with the button, which ain't workin:

on(press) {

//Set the timer
SetTimer = getTimer();

//Set timer on to true
TimerOn = true;

do {
if (getTimer() < SetTimer+1500){

//wait and do nothing

} else {
//Set timer on to false
TimerOn = false;

//Call Function 2
Function2();
}
} while(TimerOn == true);

}

on(release) {
TimerOn = false;
Function1();
}


The problem I'm getting is that the 'on(release)' action is not happening until the 'do while' statement in the 'on(press)' action evaluates to false. So basically Function2 is executed and then the 'on(release)' actions are executed.

I would be extremely grateful for any help.

Cheers,
Radiostar

 

[wangbar]

The do/while loop is executing on one frame so it's not really checking the timer at all. To keep checking the elapsed time you'll have to use a clipEvent:

onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(timerOn){
 if (getTimer() < SetTimer+1500){
//do stuff
    }
  }
}

Where timerOn and SetTimer are set from your button as in your code above. The clipEvent runs every frame and will start to evaluate the elapsed time only when the button is pressed and the timerOn condition becomes true.

 

[radiostar]

Thank You! It works like a charm. There is actually only one frame in the mc so it was checking the timer, however it just stayed in the do/while loop until the loop evaluated to false. So obviously not the way to go about it.

Thanks again for your help, you're a legend!