FMX movieclip hit areas

[borispc]

Hi!
This is a pretty simple thing but I'm not sure what is the best way to do this.
How do you define the "hot spot" for a movieclip?. Let's say you want to define what part of that movieclip is sensitive to the cursor within that same movieclip in a frame. (like the Hit Frame in a button object). The Hit Area property seems to only refer to other movieclips, and not able to define it as a specific frame.
Thank you everyone!:p:

[senocular]

1) either use a button instead or
2) use hitArea with a movieclip

You can always set the hitArea movieclip to have a _visible of fase, then it wont be seen.

[borispc]

thanks...I know those are options...just want to know if the hit area can be defined within the same mc. (not a nested mc either). A button is not an option, it needs to be a mc.

[liam]

boris -

you could also create a transparent .gif file and then import it into flash; then place it on the bottom layer of your movie clip and make it available on the frames you need.

[borispc]

thank you everyone. The most straight forward way to do this (in my humble opinion) is the following:
just draw the hit area in the bottom layer of the movieclip and then make that 0% transparent with the color mixer. Just like what Liam proposed but with no need of importing the gif, all in flash. thanks again.

[kode]

You could fake it too...

Use an onMouseDown handler and an if action to check the mouse position, something like this:
myMovieClip.onMouseDown = function() {
var xm = this._xmouse;
var ym = this._ymouse;
if (xm>20 && xm<40 && ym>20 && ym<40) {
statement(s);
}
};