ActionScript 2.0 :: Detect Mouse On Clip, Determine Quadrant And Set Property?
Feb 8, 2005
I'm trying to make a clip that will have another clip attached (eventually it'll be a mask) when you roll over it. I want the mouse positon to be determined on rollover and a different clip (with different registration point) to be attached depending on which quadrant you rollover first. IE- you rollover the lower left quadrant of the mc first so an mc with an upper right registration point is attached and follows the mouse.
Code:
leftfunction = function(){
if (patch._ymouse <= 100){
llowerfunction;
I just made a application that works fine... But it has one error. From time to time a black quadrant appears on top of the application. I call it a black whole, since it swallows every thing behind it.
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