ActionScript 3.0 :: Mixing Stage Mouse Events And Children Events?
Sep 30, 2009
I have an animation that I want to start when clicking on the flash window. However, I've also have some buttons on the stage. If I add an event listener for MouseEvent.CLICK on the stage, then it 'eats up' the events and the buttons don't work.
I've tried some tricks, by adding some invisible buttons on top of the real ones, and use the MOUSE_OVER event to selectively enable/disable the mouseEnabled flag for the stage, but didn't work because it complains that the property or method doesn't exist (which I find odd).
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TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.events::Event@3738fb79 to flash.events.MouseEvent.
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import flash.display.*
import flash.events.*
import flash.display.Sprite;
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