I have a spark List control that shows a side-list on ListEvent.ITEM_ROLL_OVER event. Basicaly it shows the contents of the item you are hovering. I would be also using ListEvent.ITEM_ROLL_OUT to hide it again but I want the user to be able to click on it (the sidelist) too.
So, i use MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT and check the event.relatedObject's id to see where the cursor went. I added an invisible Rectangle overlaying the sidelist that's a bit larger so it gains focus 1st. But it doesn't.
Googling around, I think that the Spark Rectangle cant gain focus as it doesn't implement InteractiveObject. What should I use?
My logic:
protected function listOUT(event:MouseEvent):void
{
var obj:Object = event.relatedObject;
if (obj.id != "focusRect")
{
sidelist.visible = false;
}
}
My struggle is to keep the side-list visible if the user moves the cursor from the main list to the sidelist.
Any other suggestions outside my approach are also welcome.
Update
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Red are the invisible Buttons
On roll_over select the item in the mainlist, display the sidelist
based on the selecteditem in the mainlist.
Hide the sidelist when there is no item selected in the main list.
Deselect items inthe mainlist if the sidelist loses focus.
Furthermore mx.core.UIComponent is the lightest component that dispatches focus events.
Related
So I have a button called manpb. When I click manpb, I want a menu to appear. The menu is a picture, but I can convert it into an object if this helps.
The best I can do is: Make a second frame with the menu, and insert the code inside the man_pb function:
gotoAndStop(2);
My problem is that I want the menu to appear on the same frame; then the menu will have buttons of his own. Any idea what to type inside the function below?
manpb.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, man_pb);
function man_pb(event:MouseEvent):void{
}
A big thank you!
The most intuitive solution might be to have your menu inside a MovieClip on the same frame. The menu buttons can also be placed within that menu MovieClip.
Simply convert your menu picture to a MovieClip (right-click, convert to MovieClip). Make sure that you select the MovieClip, and in the Properties panel give it an Instance Name, like menuMC or anything you want.
There are then a couple ways that you could handle making the menu appear only when you click the button.
1- Set the MovieClip's opacity to 0 by default, and then include this in your button function:
menuMC.alpha = 1;
thereby changing the MovieClip to fully opaque.
2- Make the MovieClip comprised of two frames, one empty frame that has a stop(); action, and one frame that contains your menu image and buttons. Then the button code would be:
menuMC.gotoAndStop(2);
3- Load the MovieClip dynamically from your library. See this for more information. edit: This is the approach that #DodgerThud is referring too, and is the more advanced but more comprehensive approach.
Use your Menu as an Object and add it to the MovieClip you want.
var menu:Menu = new Menu();//This is your Menu Symbol in your Library, you need to create one before you can use it
var manpb;//you could do the same thing for button, so you only need one symbol that has uses different labels
manpb.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, man_pb);
function man_pb(event:MouseEvent):void{
if(contains(menu)){//checking if "menu" already exists
removeChild(menu);//remove it from the displaylist
}else{
addChild(menu);//add it to the displaylist
}
}
In the Listener function you check if your current MovieClip (this should NOT be Button) already has a child that is menu. If it does, it removes the menu, otherwise, it will add the menu.
Don't forget to export your Menu for ActionScript.
I need to show a popup layer on a scene, creating a semi-transparent background layer that will also prevent touch events propagation. I am using the latest cocos2d-x v. 3.0-alpha-0.
What I want to achieve is a popup layer that fully handles touches (eg. buttons, menu items, scroll views, etc.), laying on a background layer (for design purposes), that covers the current scene. All items in the scene should not respond to touches any more.
Is this achievable using the new EventDispatcher class? I've been able to disable all touches to the main scene, but all instances of MenuItem that live in the scene are still touchable and active.
How can I achieve this? And, also, how can I create a touch listener that prevents all touches to the main scene but not to the popup?
You can disable menu items by setting setDisable property of menuitems to false.
Example
_menuItem->setEnabled(false);
For Layers use setTouchEnabled property
_backGroungLayer->setTouchEnabled(false);
Make sure that popup layer is not child of layer you want to disable.
To disable all items in menus do this
Suppose _menu contain various menuitems.
CCARRAY_FOREACH(_menu->getChildren(), item)
{
item.isEnabled=NO;
}
if you want to disable selected items just give them tags.There is no need to make any list.
I had the same problem and solved it with mm. It was dirty, but it worked:
Create a button using ccui.button.
Set the button size to your screen size.
Add this button as a background to your popup layer.
This will prevent any thing behind it being clicked.
By default, all CCMenu's have a set priority (kCCMenuHandlerPriority = -128) in cocos2d 2.1. So in a class (usually a CCNode descendant) that wants to swallow everything and preempt anything i do like in this dialog sequencer example below :
- (void)onEnter {
backdrop_.visible = self.isBackDropShown;
MPLOG(#"Adding self as a swallower touch delegate, above the rest of the planet.");
[[[CCDirector sharedDirector] touchDispatcher] addTargetedDelegate:self priority:_dialogTouchPriority swallowsTouches:YES];
for (CCMenu *mn in _menus) {
mn.touchPriotity = _dialogTouchPriority -1 ;
}
[super onEnter];
}
where _dialogTouchPriority is kCCMenuHandlerPriority-1 by default. It will be served before everything 'below'. It is a bad hack (cocos2d internals could be changed and break this), i know , but bullet proof. Use carefully, make certain you only ever have one of these in your scene.
I'm currently design an application that when a button is pressed it expands to display further information. A major issue I am faced with is that if the button is pressed whilst contracting so that it expands again, the co-ordinates are saved from when it was clicked, meaning it will never return to its original state.
I either need a way of disabling the mouse click on the button whilst the TweenMax is doing its job in contracting the button, or by extracting the coordinates from an array.
I've managed to get the array of coordinates from my menu class into the main class, but can't work out the best way in order to stop the problem from occurring.
--
expand = false;
(run menu function)
item.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, boxExCo);
private function boxExCo(e:MouseEvent):void
{
if (!expand)
{
selectedBox = e.target as Box;
boxX = selectedBox.x;
boxY = selectedBox.y;
expand = true;
TweenMax.to.... (expand)
}
else
{
expand = false;
TweenMax.to... (contract to coordinates)
}
}
You need to use item.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, boxExCo); when you no longer want the event to be able to fire, and then just add it back on using
item.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, boxExCo); when you want the event to be able to fire again.
Once you start your tween max, remove the event.
Once it is finished, add the event back on.
I have this code for my effect to zoom in and zoom out in certains buttons
canada.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, canadaover);
function canadaover(event:MouseEvent):void
{
gotoAndPlay("canadaS");
trace("in");
}
canada.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, canadaout);
function canadaout(event:MouseEvent):void
{
gotoAndPlay("canadaF");
trace("out");
}
canada.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickcanada);
function clickcanada(event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace("Mouse clicked");
}
the problem is when u reach certain corner of the button it kinda gets into a loop, any ideas how can i fix this?
here its the link of the swf i'm trying to do:
http://viajescupatitzio.com/america%20map.swf
If your buttons are MovieClips you can add inside a layer with a mask (for example rectangle) on top. Mask width and height should be your mouseover region and give it alpha = 0. It will be invisible, but it will work with MOUSE_OVER and MOUSE_OUT Events.
You should move your buttons into a different hierarchy level than the graphics you are changing - even if the buttons disappear, or are covered with graphics for just a very short moment, both mouseOver and mouseOut events will be fired (the mouse has left and reentered the button) - and that probably causes your "loop".
It is generally a good idea to have animations and graphical objects within nested MovieClips, and place control elements on a higher level of the display list - that way you can make sure the elements don't overlap and/or interfere.
I have a button with a tabIndex. The button contains a textfield.
When I click on the edge of the button and hit tab, the next item is correctly focussed.
But when I click on the textfield (non-editable,not tab-enabled, no tabindex), and then hit tab, it focusses on the first object on the page, even though the parents focusIn function is triggered, in which I'm setting the focus to the parent object:
parentObject:
addEventListener(FocusEvent.FOCUS_IN, focusIn);
private function focusIn(e:FocusEvent):void
{
//shows the child object (a textfield) has the focus
FlashConnect.trace(Main.instance.stage.focus);
//causes this focusIn function to be called again, but only once again, since then the focus does not change anymore
Main.instance.stage.focus = this;
//shows THIS parent object now has the focus
FlashConnect.trace(Main.instance.stage.focus);
//shows the correct tabIndex, which makes me expect the next item should be selected when I hit tab right?
FlashConnect.trace(Main.instance.stage.focus.tabIndex);
}
Any ideas how to solve this?
Have you tried setting mouseEnabled, mouseChildren, and tabChildren? Also, I have to point out that a Singleton View is even more bad practice than other Singletons. You're likely to really regret this architectural choice long term.