So I'm trying my hand at writing my first tower defense game and I've discovered a snag. One part of the game involves keyboard input, but if I click on an object to create a tower, then the keyboard stops responding until I click on the background. My keyboard listeners are attached to the stage and the object being clicked is a button in a MovieClip added to the game's MovieClip.
View 4 RepliesI am rather new to AS3 and I have a few difficulties with the new buttons usage. I have a Document Class in which the Keyboard is used to navigate a Child. There is also another Child of a different class, which is kind of a popup box that you can open and close by separate buttons. The close button lies inside the popup box class. However, when I click this button to close the box, removing the Child, keyboard actions don't react until I click on the screen once more.The same happens when I click a button that goes to the next frame, in which the button isn't there anymore, but keyboard actions are requested. But they only work, once I click inside the swf screen again.
View 6 Repliesi'm using actionscript 3 in FlashBuilder 4.5in my top-level class that is derived from the Sprite class, i added a keyboard listener:stage.addEventListener( KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, HandleKeyboard );i don't get any keyboard events until i click the mouse button in the screen area - then the events work fine.i tried setting the stage.focus to stage and other various things,
View 8 RepliesI have a key.addlistener setup to listen to key events. What I want to be able to do is to dispatch key events by for example a mouse click or just on load. I've tried a lot of possible solutions such as dispatchEvent with type as "onKeyDown" and "keyDown" etc.... but key listener simply do not treat it as a keyboard event.
Code:
var eventObj = new Object();
eventObj.type = "keyDown";
eventObj.code = 13;
eventObj.ascii = 'e';
dispatchEvent(eventObj);
I have a 4 frame game that moves from frame to frame depending on what the player does.On the first frame, I have an intro and a button to get to the main portion of the game, frame 2. The frame loads up and the game code runs, but until the player clicks again on the stage, the keyboard controls do not function.The code for the button is straight forward. I have a button object and the following code in the frame:
playGame.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, goodLuck); function goodLuck(evt:MouseEvent): void { gotoAndPlay(2); removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, goodLuck); }
I am making the board game Shogi in actionscript 2 and I have a question on how to detect a particular imput.I have a movie clip on the stage, I want it so that if I hold down the keyboard button "p" and then click on the movie clip, it will go to the movie clip's frame 2 (not the entire flash project's frame 2, just the particular icon's frame 2. I need this because I am using movie clips as game pieces and in Shogi, certain game pieces can be promoted. I also was wondering how to detect what frame it is on.
View 3 RepliesI'm building a swf wrapper which loads third-party swf games. The client would like a button in the wrapper which will dispatch a keyboard event in the loaded swf.
View 1 RepliesI'm building a swf wrapper which loads third-party swf games. The client would like a button in the wrapper which will dispatch a keyboard event in the loaded swf.
how to construct a dispatch event in the wrapper that reaches into the loaded swf?
If I plan to implement 100 objects on stage to be listen to mouse and keyboard input, is using "function" call responsive enough? How good does eventlistner work?
View 2 RepliesI am trying to learn JavaScript and I am wondering whether JavaScript has a event listener just like ActionScript's ENTER_FRAME. Basically, I want this event listener to listen "all the time" not just wait for any particular instance (mouse click, keyboard event) of event.
View 3 RepliesI just started playing around with as3 and I have a function for mouse clicks that draws a shape on each click. However the mouse click event does not appear to work unless I click a movieClip object I placed in the middle of the screen. Is there a way to make the mouse click event recognize when I click anywhere on the screen?
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I've been looking for this for years, and a good friend of mine that is a master at AS3 is not well versed in AS2, so I thought I'd ask the pros here.onClipEvent(mouseUp) on(release)I have code like these two examples on a mc (sometimes a button, I only use buttons in AS2) on the root timeline. Usually I use a mouse-click to activate them, but there's this one mc I'd like to have work via a keyboard keypress. What I can do is make the first frame of this mc blank, and the 2nd frame and beyond have elements to expose. So I was thinking I hit the key "v" to play this mc that resembles a volume overlay screen for this UI I'm working on
View 5 RepliesEverything was working great.We were instructed to build upon this simple design and add a welcome screen and a game over screen with a click to play button and a click to quit button. I was able to successfully create those screens in new frames on the timeline and have them gotoAndStop at the original game frame, but now instead of being able to move the avatar with the keyboard arrows, I have to click the stage first to use them.
View 4 RepliesI changed the mouse cursor using a tutoral from this forum, but when I press the right mouse button,the standard mouse cursor reapears.How to prevent that?
View 10 RepliesI am trying to have two guestures on a SpriteVisualElement which I thought should be pretty simple implemented: Mouse_Move for sweep Gestures and mouse click to enable.. So I have 2 Eventlisteners on my stage:
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The main problem is that every type of sweeping on the screen also fires the taphandler().. how to identify the correct event? I tried to to my taphandler only if(!event.buttondown) but no success.
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Code:
band_button.buttonMode = true;
band_button.useHandCursor = true;
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I changed the mouse cursor using a tutoral from this forum, but when I press the right mouse button, the standard mouse cursor reapears...
How to prevent that?
I have two scenes in flash - when you go to scene 2 there is a eventListener attached to the stage to move a movieclip. When I test the movie the only way the keyboard listener seems to work is if I click on the stage first, then the object will move. Is there a solution to this. The code I am using is:
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I've created a calculator and it works fine. The only problem I have is that I want to make it easier to use. How can I for example how can I have the calculator respond to my keyboard instead of having to click the number. Instead of having to get the mouse and clcik the 5 I rather just press the 5 on the keyboard.
View 2 Repliesi click on the play button and go to my playscreen. Then I have to click on the playscreen for it to accept keyboard input!
View 11 RepliesI make a button in my flash and I put the code for opening the new page. That I want now is not only click with the mouse and open the url I want for keyboard for example the A button when I pus it he will open the new url.
View 3 RepliesI am looking for a way to simulate a mouse hover/mouse click. What's happening is a bar is autoscrolling and checking to see if there is an active button 'below' it. Sort of like a bar rolling along a music staff and checking for notes.
What can I use to accomplish this?
handling global keyboard events in Flex, is to attach a listener in the application complete event of a Flex application. However, no matter what I try, I have not been able to catch events without clicking on a point on the page, which is hosting my Flex application.
Moreoever, if I use a Flex component in a web application, where there is also html and Javascript, I'd still like to be able to grap global keyboard events, even if the embedded flex component (in flash player) does not have focus. So is there a reliable method for connecting flex applications and components (when they're embedded in a web page) to keyboard events?
My client uses IrfanView to play SWF files. Unfortunately, he does not use Flashplayer. In Flashplayer, I can crossover mouse and keyboard events with no problem. In IrfanView, the second I click a button, the keyboard events are disabled. Is there a fix?
View 3 RepliesIs there some other simple method to redirect mouse/keyboard input from one object to an object behind it. I have used mouseEnabled = false where the object in front is only a UIComponent and it works. However mouseEnabled,mouseChildren=false is not working for an SWFLoader.
View 1 RepliesI am creating an action script keyboard for a touch screen. I have buttons from A - Z. How do I get the value out of the mouse event?
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I have a pretty linear slide show presentation.It starts with a navigate function that listens fr keyboard presses(space, right or left arrows) and also a mouse click listener, and these either advance or rewind the show a slide at a time.On about a dozen of the 60 slides, I call an external swf or flv/f4v and i have built in conditions based on frame number, so that I can kill movies and unload swfs before moving on.Make sense?So, i'm wondering, is there a way to code all the exceptions once and have them bind to the mouse listener and the keyboard listener?Or should I just code all the exceptions in the mouse listener function and the keyboard case listener?Or am I totally going the wrong direction?Thinking out loud, I guess i could write 2 different simple functions, one that is straight advance frame -to- frame, and one that is for the "exceptions" frames, that kills a movie or unloads a swf, and set a boolean variable based upon what frame the movie is on.
View 1 RepliesI have a text input, when event focusout happen, how to know this event generated by mouse or keyboard ?
View 1 Repliesbesides
Code:
import mx.events.*;
what is a way to specifically import only mouse, and only keyboard events? side question but related, also the "addListener" that is used on MovieClipLoaders for example, what specific event import is that using?( the events.* will not work for my particular project and i need to import all of these classes individually )
Code:
var mainShapeMaskLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var mainShapeMaskListener = new Object();
mainShapeMaskListener.parent = this;[code]....
Can I use a generic Event listener for both mouse and keyboard ?Something like this ?
Code:
private function controlAction(e:Event):void {
if (e is KeyboardEvent) {
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