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icekomo test
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Hello,

I'm missing something from my code but for the life of me can't seem to figure it out. I created a class to handle my button actions, MouseOver,Off and will also handle the click function.

I got it working but I'm lost as to how I target just the button that I am rolling on to and not the movieClip the button lives in. Here is my code:

 

package classes.menu
{
import flash.display.*;
import flash.text.TextField;
import flash.events.*;
import com.greensock.*;
import com.greensock.easing.*;

public class MenuButtons extends MovieClip
{
	public function MenuButtons()
	{
		this.mouseChildren = false;
		this.buttonMode = true;
		addButtonTitles();
	}
	public function addButtonTitles():void
	{
		trace("menu buttons");
		this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, rollOverBtn);
		homeBtn.white.txt.text = "HOME";
		homeBtn.blue.txt.text = "HOME";
	}
	public function rollOverBtn(event:MouseEvent):void
	{
			TweenLite.to(event.target,1,{alpha:.5});
			this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, rollOffBtn);
			trace("rollOver");
	}
			public function rollOffBtn(event:MouseEvent):void
	{
			TweenLite.to(event.target,1,{alpha:1});
			trace("rollOver");
	}
}
}

 

As I said before when I roll over one of the buttons I just want that button to alpha fade, not the whole _mc that it lives int. I tried to use event.target but that didn't seem to do what I was looking for.

Any help on this would be very grateful!

 

Thanks

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Hey iceKomo,

 

I'm flying a bit blind here but what I'll take a stab.

 

what happens if you remove

 

this.mouseChildren = false.

 

does this class define the behavior of a menu that contains individual buttons or does it define the behavior of an individual button?

 

the best thing to do is run a trace(event.target.name) in your mouse event handler functions. I'm thinking that killing the mouseChildren is preventing subclips from being the target of mouse events.

 

Carl

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Also, be careful about using MOUSE_OVER/MOUSE_OUT instead of ROLL_OVER/ROLL_OUT. It's a common mistake. See http://www.greensock.com/tweening-tips/#mouseover

 

Why are you adding a MOUSE_OUT listener each time a MOUSE_OVER happens? Just curious. The typical way of dealing with this is to add ROLL_OVER and ROLL_OUT listeners once initially and that's it.

 

Is there a reason you're not using "this" as the target of your tweens? That might work better than event.target in this scenario. Like:

TweenLite.to(this, 1, {alpha:1});

 

It might also be beneficial to read up on the difference between event.target and event.currentTarget.

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