Interactive cursor

[amine000]

Hello everyone,

I'm creating a flash map in flash actionscript 3.0, I want to make the name of the country pop up (in an interactive way) when I put the cursor over it, do you know how could I make that?

Please, click on the link bellow to take a look on the interactivity that I want :

Interactive country flash map with zoom: USA | Graphic Flash Sources

Best regards,

[Ned Murphy · Accepted solution]

One way would be to have a movieclip that follows the mouse cursor and appears and gets assigned text by whatever it is hovering over.

Use a MOUSE_MOVE event listener/handler to adjust the position of the movieclip's x and y properties relative to the mouseX and mouseY properties.

Use a MOUSE_OVER listener/handler for each object you roll over that reassigns the text to the textfield in the movieclip.

[amine000]

Hello Ned, thanks for your answer. can you please give me some more details, I'm a beginner  in actionscript and i don't know where to go and which steps should i follow to do that !

can you give an exemple please?

[Ned Murphy]

Here is a link to an example file I made for you:

http://www.nedwebs.com/Flash/AS3_Show_Text.fla

[amine000]

YES that's exactly what I was looking for ! can you please describe how did you do that ?

[Ned Murphy]

I did what I already described in my first response.  Study it and what the file does and ask specific questions for what you do not understand

[amine000]

yes sure, thanks Ned. but where could i go to see the script of those actions?

[Ned Murphy]

Look in the timeline.  There is a layer that has a lowercase a in one of the frames.  Open the Actions panel and click on that frame to see the code that is in it.

[amine000]

THANK YOU Ned I'll try the code on my project, and I'll let you know.

[Ned Murphy]

You're welcome