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grahamdeuchar
Participant
June 22, 2006
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Mouse-hold button

Hey guys,

This is such a stupid question to be asking but it's one I've not come across in a while and I'm danged if I can remember how to do it - I basically have a scrollable map I've been building, but the scroll buttons need to be clicked over and over to move around the map - how can I go about having the following iterate indefinitely until the mouse is relased?:

on(release) {
_level0.map._x = _level0.map._x + 20;
}

I know it'll be an onpress do while etc etc - but I don't know the most efficient way of tackling it! Any ideas?

Thanks,
Graham
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TolkCorrect answer
Inspiring
June 22, 2006
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
if(move) {
_level0.map._x = _level0.map._x + 20;
}
}

onClipEvent(mouseDown) { move=true; }
onClipEvent(mouseUp) { move=false; }

I think that's what your trying to do, like Sivakanesh said but iv'e done it for you.
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grahamdeucharAuthor
Participant
June 22, 2006
Got it! Thanks guys - I've been thrown in at the deep end here being a fairly amateur ActionScripter - so much for my boss' theory that a PHP developer will automatically be a Flash guru :P
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grahamdeucharAuthor
Participant
June 22, 2006
Sorry. I'm still bamboozled here - I'm going totally the wrong way about it I think. Here's what I have, which does virtually nothing - it works once on click but no hold-down functionality....

onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
var move=false;
function left() {
if(move==true) { _level0.map._x = _level0.map._x + 20; }
}
setInterval(left, 100);
}

onClipEvent(mouseDown) { move=true; }
onClipEvent(mouseUp) { move=false; }
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TolkCorrect answer
Inspiring
June 22, 2006
onClipEvent(enterFrame) {
if(move) {
_level0.map._x = _level0.map._x + 20;
}
}

onClipEvent(mouseDown) { move=true; }
onClipEvent(mouseUp) { move=false; }

I think that's what your trying to do, like Sivakanesh said but iv'e done it for you.
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Sivakanesh
Known Participant
June 22, 2006
This should get you on the right tracks.
First setup a variable called Zoom set it to true on onMouseDown and false onMouseUp.
Then
this.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (Zoom) {
//code for zooming;
}

if you wanted to stop the frame looping use this.onEnterFrame = null;
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