STOP the classic Slider Menu, when mouse leaves area

[Alex]

Does anyone know the ActionScripting to Stop a Classic Slider Menu when your mouse leaves the area where that Slider Menu rests?

To give a little more specifics, hopefully that won't confuse you:

My slider menu (mc1) sits on top of another Movie Clip (mc2). MC2 is on the main stage, and only takes up a quater of the bottom left hand corner. Unfortunately, if you move your mouse to select a button which is not on the Slider Menu but somewhere else on the screen,  the slider continues to, well, slide.

I'm kind of new to AS, so be gentle. Thanks.

[Jorge Solis]

If the slider react to an on(rollOver), then you need to add a on(rollOut) to disable it, and the same with the others events like press - release. So look in your scrollbar and check to which event is reacting your button (or sensible area)

Jorge

[Alex]

Jorge, this is the code that I am using for the sliding menu:

onClipEvent (load)
{
   xcenter=92;
   speed=1/10;
   }
onClipEvent (enterFrame)
{
   var distance=_root._xmouse-xcenter;
   _x+=(distance*speed);
   if (_x > 0) _x=0;
   if (_x < -567) _x=-567;
}


//the xcenter is not exactly the center becuase there is a mask applied to reveal only the left side of the slider menu

[Jorge Solis]

You need to add a sensible area that triggers your event, since on(enterFrame) is constantly working without regarding what happens on stage. So you can i.e use an invisible button covering the area you want to use (the area that reacts to mouse) and put in the button a flag

[script]
//In invisible button
on(rollOver){
 draging = true
}
on(rollOut){
 draging = false
}

//Modify a little this
onClipEvent (enterFrame){
 if(draging==true){ //Checks if mouse is over the sensible area
   var distance=_root._xmouse-xcenter;
   _x+=(distance*speed);
   if (_x > 0) _x=0;
   if (_x < -567) _x=-567;
 }
}
[/script]

If you don't want the hand cursor in the sensible area, then perhaps could use a hitTest over a coordinate of stage (see hitTest entry in ActionScript dictionary) following the same idea

Jorge

[Alex]

very very cool, thanks Jorge!