Comments on: Hand Me That Cursor, Would You?

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:24:20 +0000

whoops should be:

txtHolder_sp.addChild(Text_txt);//enbed TextField in the Sprite
this.addChild(txtHolder_sp);//show the Sprite on the stage

How do I edit a comment I left here? Thanks again.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:22:00 +0000

I added two lines at the end to make the embeding clear:

var txtHolder_sp:Sprite = new Sprite;
var Text_txt:TextField = new TextField;
txtHolder_sp.buttonMode = true;
txtHolder_sp.mouseChildren = false;/* This allows the hand cursor to turn on if a TextField is embedded in the Sprite.*/
Text_txt.text = ‘clickable text’
txtHolder.addChild(nameText);//enbed TextField in the Sprite
this.addChild(txtHolder);//show the Sprite on the stage

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:39:30 +0000

Thanks! Helped me a ton. I have a TextField embedded in a Sprite which I wanted to have a hand cursor. Here is what I did with your help:

By: Flash Notes: Properties, Button Event Listeners » Webomatica - Technology and Entertainment Digest

Sun, 11 May 2008 03:28:09 +0000

[...] Note #2: When designing more complex buttons, I noticed if there are other elements within the button movie clip, the listeners can register false. There are additional properties to limit the event behavior of movie clips within movie clips (”children”). So in the above example, I set the property “mouseChildren” of myButton to false (mybutton.mouseChildren = false). Read more about this subject at Partly Human. [...]

By: Pickels

Pickels — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:59:01 +0000

Thanks for the info. I am also new to as 3.0 and this helped a lot. =)

By: nick

nick — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:33:09 +0000

Very helpful! Was struggling with this one.

By: Sunil

Sunil — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:21:32 +0000

Thanks for that! I’m just starting out on AS3 and was scratching my head on that one.

By: swanky.wu

swanky.wu — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:28:29 +0000

thx…

it’s save me…

By: peko

peko — Mon, 07 May 2007 21:10:48 +0000

Domo, it`s help me a lot!

By: Roger Braunstein

Roger Braunstein — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:22:27 +0000

Odd, in mims flava of the blog the SWF appears to be the wrong swf. I don’t know why this is, but it resolves itself when you view full. But you’re already doing that! So why am I talking to you?!

By: Mike J

Mike J — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:03:40 +0000

Great information for complex composite controls.

For the example of creating a simple button though you can also inherit from flash.display.SimpleButton and that behavior comes with it (tab stop, space triggers click event), as well as simplicity in managing up / over / down states (just assign a display object like a shape to each of the properties for the state).