tracking mouse by _xmouse, _ymouse

[gwx03]

Hi all again..

need a/script help like before!

I wanted to track my mouse in a flash movie and display it into a dynamic textbox but the textbox does not show anything. I debugged the code and nothing seems wrong.

On the root timeline, this is my code :

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this.onMouseMove=function(){
	inputs_mc.xPos=Math.round(_xmouse);
	inputs_mc.yPos=Math.round(_ymouse);
	updateAfterEvent();
};

inputs_mc is my movie clip instance name, which houses two dynamic textfields, assigned the variables xPos and yPos. I have tried xPos and yPos without inputs_mc but it still does not work.

updateAfterEvent(); means whenever the mouse moves, the variable value would change

and Math.round means round it to a round number,not a floating point or fraction. I also tried Math.floor but didn't work either.

that's about the code and info I have, I don't see why things got wrong.

to sum it up :

xPos and yPos are variables
One dynamic textfield assigned to xPos and one assigned value of yPos
These two textfields are in a movie clip called inputs_mc
Code shown above is on movie main timeline ( the scene or root timeline or whatever you call it )

[Webforumz Staff]

If that code is on the main timeline then you are approaching this wrong.

onMouseMove applies to a movieclip, not the timeline. So you would have to put this code onto a movieclip for the code you have to work.

However, there is a better way to do this.

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someListener = new Object();
someListener.onMouseMove = function () { 
	inputs_mc_x = _xmouse
	inputs_mc_y = _ymouse
};
Mouse.addListener(someListener);

Where your textfields are inputs_mc_x and inputs_mc_y
This will go anywhere and always work.

[gwx03]

thanks..

just wanted to know what is..

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 Mouse.addListener(someListener);

[gwx03]

ok.. sirkent answered me over msn..

Mouse.addListener(someListener);

means you add a Listener which was created just now ( which goes by the name of someListener ) to Mouse, a built-in object.