Hiding from mouse events?

[Brent Summers]

I am building an interactive map and have run into a very interesting problem.

After adding a floating cloud layer on top of the map all the elements below the cloud layer are inaccessible as the cloud layer is the only object getting mouse events.

Is there a way to to tell flash to ignore the cloud layer for purposes of interaction?

[BeerOclock]

cloud.mouseEnabled = false;


If you havnt looked at this yet, check it out:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/index.html

Its the Actionscript 3 language reference.

Once you're used to it, you can usually answer your own questions faster than someone else will reply on some forum.

[ayumilove]

Create 2 movieclips on stage, 1 is cloud, the other is a button/object which is listening to clicks


//AddEventListeners for myCloud and myButton MovieClips for testing
myCloud.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,clo udHandler);
myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,clic kHandler);

function clickHandler(e:MouseEvent)
{
myCloud.visible = true;
trace(e.currentTarget.name); //traces button instance name
trace("Hello Ayumilove!");

}

function cloudHandler(e:MouseEvent)
{
myCloud.visible = false;
}






myCloud.mouseEnabled =false;
myButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,clickHa ndler);

function clickHandler(e:MouseEvent)
{
trace(e.currentTarget.name); //traces button instance name
trace("Hello Ayumilove!");

}

[unhitched]

I had a similar issue recently where I was implementing the swfMacMousewheel from (http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/) in Flex and my TextArea was receiving the MouseEvents instead of the container holding it. As I wanted to leave the text within the TA selectable, MouseEnabled=false was not an option.

In the end I captured the event and redispatched it by attaching a listener to the event and asking the container to dispatch it - "this.dispatchEvent(event)"