FLASH: the mouse

I promised you the MouseEvent, here is a drawing movie illustrating the different event playing together.

http://www.contrechoc.com/flash/SimpleDraw.zip

The mouse is a very complex thing! All kinds of events are possible.

Here are several eventlisteners for the mouse:

• addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler);
• addEventListener(MouseEvent.DOUBLE_CLICK, doubleClickHandler);
• addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDownHandler);
• addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mouseOutHandler);
• addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mouseOverHandler);
• addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, mouseUpHandler);
• addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL, mouseWheelHandler);

So a mouse is more complex than a key!

for instance the position, which can be found using the event like this:

function startDraw ( event:MouseEvent): void
{
var posX : Number = event.stageX;
var posY : Number = event.stageY;
}

used:

• for loop
• timer
• mouse event (in simpledraw)