Reading a click event even when its state is not captured; so not "clicked"?

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May 26, 2009
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Hello

Im working on menu where I need to capture a "holded" mouse click in order to register a second event handler.

Only problem is that the click is "on hold", meaning that the mouse button is beeing pressed and "holded" - so its not be catched by Flash's "MouseEvent.CLICK" listener as completed "CLICK".

Is there any workaround to capture this event before its registered as a completed click? - Maybe using the "useCapture" flag of the event handler?

ActionScript

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Correct answer Rothrock

I'm sure this post makes sense to you since you know what you are doing. But I'm not really following it. You've got an awful lot of versions of "to click" and "to hold" in there. Are you saying you need to differentiate between a click (a press and release) and a hold (press and hold)?

In that case don't use MouseEvent.CLICK use MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN and MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP and maybe a Timer or something to register that it has been held long enough?

Am I close? Getting the general idea?

R

RothrockCorrect answer

Inspiring

I'm sure this post makes sense to you since you know what you are doing. But I'm not really following it. You've got an awful lot of versions of "to click" and "to hold" in there. Are you saying you need to differentiate between a click (a press and release) and a hold (press and hold)?

In that case don't use MouseEvent.CLICK use MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN and MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP and maybe a Timer or something to register that it has been held long enough?

Am I close? Getting the general idea?