Event.MOUSE_LEAVE

[Flep]

Greetings,

There is an event available in Actionscript 3.0 that I didn"t take notice before: the event MOUSE_LEAVE.
This useful event allows to intercept the moment when the user"s mouse leaves the area defined by the SWF.
It is certainly important and useful when realizing animations based on the mouse coordinates and obviously, it will find its utility in more different type of applications.

I create a FLA and I save it as "main.fla".
Into which, I create a dynamic text field with an instance name "test_txt".

The code to use the event MOUSE_EVENT:

stage.addEventListener(Event.MOUSE_LEAVE,go);
function go(evt:Event):void
{
	test_txt.appendText('gone  ');
}

This event is only available added to the stage.

The result:

If we move the mouse outside the area defined by the SWF, Flash will now tell us so.

See you next!

[gwulfwud]

a very useful one! thanks flep!

[Florindustries]

If I roll out of the box, it says "gone", but if I then click in the browser, every click will generate another "gone", even though I'm not over the flash movie anymore ..
Any ideas?

[Flep]

I think cause of this forum board.
Did you try it with a simple html page ?

[pikus222]

This event isn't dispached when mouse pointer leaves stage while mouse button is pressed. If you realese mouse button outside the stage, then MOUSE_LEAVE event is fired. When you move cursor back to stage and then realese the button, then event isn't dispached at all.

Any clue how to handle dispaching MOUSE_LEAVE event with mouse button pressed??

[Flep]

hmmm very good point