AS2 Detecting When Mouse Leaves the Stage : Alan Klement

A handy script when working with Actionscript 2 code. Because there is no Actionscript 3 Event.MOUSE_LEAVE equivalent in AS2. the best thing to do is to write a custom script for mouse detection on stage. I don’t know who authored this, but I’d like to record it so it doesn’t get lost on the internet.

     var mouse_dx:Number=_xmouse;
     var mouse_dy:Number=_ymouse;
     var mouseSpeed:Number=1;
 
     function checkPosition(Void):Void
      {
	   if(_xmouse(Stage.width-mouseSpeed) || _ymouse(Stage.height-mouseSpeed))
            {
		in_mc._visible=false;
		out_mc._visible=true;
		trace("out");
	    }
            else
            {
		in_mc._visible=true;
		out_mc._visible=false;
		trace("in");
	    }
       }
 
      checkPosition(Void);
 
      var mouseListener:Object = new Object();
      mouseListener.onMouseMove = function():Void
      {
	    mouse_dx = Math.abs(mouse_dx-_xmouse);
	    mouse_dy = Math.abs(mouse_dy-_ymouse);
	    mouseSpeed = mouse_dx &gt; mouse_dy ? mouse_dx  : mouse_dy;
	    mouseSpeed +=1;
	    checkPosition(Void);
 	    mouse_dx=_xmouse;
            mouse_dy=_ymouse;
     }
 
     Mouse.addListener(mouseListener);

3 Responses to “AS2 Detecting When Mouse Leaves the Stage”

SparK says:

2010/08/20 at 9:35 am

For some reason it’s not working for me
it does… nothing.
sjomang says:

2011/09/14 at 5:01 pm

that is not a function, it’s a property… it’s not working!
Alan says:

2011/09/14 at 8:36 pm

I used this script in a project some years ago. There might be something else in your code that is not allowing it to work. There also might be a small error here; however, it should be easy to debug.

Simply reading it right now, I can see one character that has been clobbered by the WordPress code plugin. You should be able to figure it out.

Alan Klement

AS2 Detecting When Mouse Leaves the Stage

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