hover caption within movie canvas

[felipegm]

I followed the hover caption tutorial (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/captions2.htm) but sometimes the hover caption goes out of the movie.

How to make it stay inside the movie and a certain distance of the mouse?

[eki]

You need to rethink the way you're doing it:

I would 'drag' the the caption by making its x and y the xmouse and ymouse
in an enterframe:


onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_root.x==1) {
if(this._x+this.width < _root.stageWidth){ //_root.stageWidth being the width of the stage
this._x = _root._xmouse;
} else {
this._x = _root._xmouse-this.width;
}
this._y = _root._ymouse; // you may want to do the same with the y. i'm too lazy
this._alpha = 50;
} else {
this._alpha = 0;
}
}

[felipegm]

thanks for your replay, but the hover is still going out of sight when the button is near the edge of the movie...
The hover is a little large, like 200x200, and somethimes goes out of the canvas... how to control it in a way that it doesn´t goe out?

[felipegm]

thanks for your replay, but the hover is still going out of sight when the button is near the edge of the movie...
The hover is a little large, like 200x200, and somethimes goes out of the canvas... how to control it in a way that it doesn´t goe out? or maybe I made something wrong with your code?

[felipegm]

Don´t know what I´m doing wrong.
Could you please take a look at my fla?
thanks

[eki]

Hi,
there you have

[MattyG]

I've been trying to accomplish this same thing with no luck... by the way I did download the file from 'eki' and it doesn't really accomplish the goal either. Anybody else figure this out? Surely someone has done this the right way...

Thanks!

[jerez_z]

you could always do a boundary test:



if(clip.getBounds(_root).xMin < 0) {
clip._x = 0+(clip._width/2)
} else if(clip.getBounds(_root).xMax > Stage.width) {
clip._x = Stage.width-(clip._width/2);
}
if(clip.getBounds(_root).yMin < 0) {
clip._y = 0+(clip._height/2)
} else if(clip.getBounds(_root).yMax > Stage.height) {
clip._y = Stage.height-(clip._height/2);
}
//NOTE: you may have to replace Stage.width/Stage.height with the width and height of your movie (respectively)


Hope that helps. :D

[MattyG]

I'll give that a try... Thanks for the help!

[jerez_z]

no problem