Simulating MouseOvers

[tfhwargt3]

I have a .onRollOver function written, and I have all the functionality i want for it inside. But when the user is not mousing over anything for a certain period of time, say 3 seconds, I want a simple scripted animation of a ball to start. I want my flash file to act the same when the ball happens to go over the objects with the obRollOver function attached to them. So basically the ball is like a second user that takes over when the real user is lazy. Is there a way to simulate this?

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Have a look at "setInterval" - you can use it as a timer.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[tfhwargt3]

no, i know how to use setInterval. I was more wondering how to get a ball that is tracking across the screen to trigger the onRollOver function, or one like it.

Sorry.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Then have a look at "hitTest()" method - you can check if your ball intersects with your button.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[tfhwargt3]

Thanks ! That's awesome help. I got it working. But I want to do it in a loop. This is the structure of my prog is that i have a lot of videos in a grid. Each one is identified like
_root.vid0, _root.vid1, etc. etc. So below is my ball function /class where I check if the ball is true during hitTest(). Right now I am doing this:

....
Ball.prototype.onEnterFrame = function (){
/*various ball code*/
.
.
        if (_root.b0.hitTest(_root.vid0)) {
		trace("ball intersects 0");
	}
	if (_root.b0.hitTest(_root.vid1)) {
		trace("ball intersects 1");
	}
	if (_root.b0.hitTest(_root.vid2)) {
		trace("ball intersects 2");
	}
	if (_root.b0.hitTest(_root.vid3)) {
		trace("ball intersects 3");
	}
	if (_root.b0.hitTest(_root.vid4)) {
		trace("ball intersects 4");

        .
        . etc. etc. for each vid

You can see how this can get monotonous pasting for every single video. I tried this approach with a loop but it didn't work. Maybe someone can help me out.

       for (i=0; i<theFlvs.length-2; i++) {
		vidName = "vid"+i;
		if (_root.b0.hitTest(_root.vidName)) {
			trace("ball intersects " + vidName);
		} 
 	}

This doesn't do anything but the other method works fine.
Basically all i want to do is to be able to put in _root.vidName for vid0...

Thanks

 

[kennethkawamoto]

for (i=0; i<theFlvs.length-2; i++) {
	vidName = "vid"+i;
	if (_root.b0.hitTest(_root[b][vidName][/b])) {
		trace("ball intersects "+vidName);
	}
}

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[tfhwargt3]

what is the difference between _root. and _root[]

 

[kennethkawamoto]

[] (array access) evaluates operand. For example:
[tt]
i = 3
this["vid" + i]
[/tt]
...is the same as
[tt]
this.vid3
[/tt]

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk