Foss: Anti Offscreen Clicking

[GeoKureli]

Foss: main
The title may be misleading. you cant really stop themouse from leaving, i just could fit a better title in.

Ok lets say you playing madness, and you clicking at like 400 times per second, whops you clicked a different window, or your freind im'd you. now the key's are unresponsive. until you find the window and click back on. madness fans know exactly what im talking about. Well, to my knowledge there is no way to stop the mouse from leaving the screen, but heres the next best thing. this finds whether or not your mouse is in bounds of the flash game. other wise it pauses it.

NOTE: as far as i know there is no pause function so for this to work you have to put a if(_root.gamePaused){} thing on them. i know its alot of work but you should really put a pause function on your games anyways.

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("impBackButton"
, -100000000);
_root.impBackButton.beginFill(0, 0);
_root.impBackButton.lineTo(Stage.width, 0);
_root.impBackButton.lineTo(Stage.width, Stage.height);
_root.impBackButton.lineTo(0, Stage.height);
_root.impBackButton.lineTo(0, 0);
_root.impBackButton.useHandCursor = false;
//draws a button under all your movieClips and hides the fingerCursor
_root.impBackButton.onRollOver = function() {
_root.gamePaused = false;
};
//mouse is on screen
_root.impBackButton.onRollOut = function() {
_root.gamePaused = true;
};
//mouse is off screen

this isn't a complicated code at all. i just thought i'd throw it out there.

ill have a better sample later

[authorblues]

At 11/13/05 01:01 AM, ImpotentBoy2 wrote: _root.createEmptyMovieClip("impBackButton"
, -100000000);

generally speaking, flash does not play well when you use negative depth, but it works, and its actually a genius idea. great work, in any case.

[GeoKureli]

At 11/13/05 01:33 AM, authorblues wrote:

At 11/13/05 01:01 AM, ImpotentBoy2 wrote: _root.createEmptyMovieClip("impBackButton"
, -100000000);

generally speaking, flash does not play well when you use negative depth, but it works, and its actually a genius idea. great work, in any case.

i was afraid of that, but of course i couldnt have a button over everthing. and im glad you liked it.

[authorblues]

At 11/13/05 01:39 AM, ImpotentBoy2 wrote: i was afraid of that, but...

sort of a catch-22, if you will.

[Rantzien]

There is one problem; Hovering over another button would count as a rollOut on the impBackButton. That counts for selectable text too, like the one you have in your example. If you hover over the true/false text field, it changes to true. This is something that might cause problems.

[GeoKureli]

crap,this is gonna take a while to fix

[authorblues]

At 11/13/05 02:38 PM, ImpotentBoy2 wrote: crap,this is gonna take a while to fix

i know, ive been working on it for an hour as well

[GeoKureli]

lol i figured it out. there really is no reason for selectable text, so just make all text nonSelectable and put this code for all the buttons
_root.impBackButton.onRollOver = function() {
_root.gamePaused = false;
};

[GeoKureli]

oops well really it would most likely be
on (rollOver) {
_root.gamePaused = false;
}

didnt mean to put the impbutton name on it

[Rantzien]

But what if I want selectable text?!?!?!

No, just messing with you, it's ok.

[Senti]

Why don't you post this stuff on Burstfilms?

This is fucking great man...definitly a must for all future games involving mouse movement. Genious bro.