Hi,

im using falsh mx 2004 pro and am having a bit trouble with using a mouse listener. I have two buttons, on to add the listener and the other to remove it. The add one works fine but the remove one doesnt. I have spent ages looking around to see what I am doing wrong but have been unsuccessfull. Can anyone help me?

I have this code in it -

function add_mouse_listener() {

    var select_listener:Object = new Object();
    select_listener.onMouseUp = selection_check;

    Mouse.addListener(select_listener);
    //Mouse.removeListener(select_listener);

}

function remove_mouse_listener() {

    trace("remove_mouse_listener() called");
    Mouse.removeListener(select_listener);

}

function selection_check() {

    trace("mouse listener active");

}

and on the buttons I have

on(release){
    trace("button released");

    _root.add_mouse_listener();

}

and on the other

on(release){
    trace("button released");

    _root.remove_mouse_listener();

}

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks for your time

I don't really know anything about this as I'm only a Flash designer. However, you may want to ask this at Flash Kit You may get help there.

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Hope this helps,



Ben Horne
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Just thought I would post the solution to this problem rather than just leaevining it blank, incase anyone else has this problem. The problem was that I was declaring the listener object in the add_mouse_listener function and therefore the object was accessible only to that object - it should have been ddeclared before the function. Stupid mistake really. But this is how it should have looked.


var select_listener:Object = new Object();

function add_mouse_listener() {

    select_listener.onMouseUp = selection_check;

    Mouse.addListener(select_listener);

}

function remove_mouse_listener() {

    trace("remove_mouse_listener() called");
    Mouse.removeListener(select_listener);

}

function selection_check() {

    trace("mouse listener active");

}


Now both functions have access to the listener object.

Glad you got it figured out.

Remember that you always have Flash Kit as a place to go to for help if we can't solve your problem here.

Ben Horne
-------------------------
I don't want to sound like I haven't made any mistakes. I'm confident I have.

Welcome to the New Age