i have designed a gaming kiosk app in as3
i am using it on a Sony vaio l pc (like hp's touchsmarts) in windows 7
the app doesn't need any multi-touch gestures (only single touch clicks and drags) so i am using mouse events
everything is fine (including mouse click and move events) except that a single touch to the screen (with no move) doesn't fire a mouse down. it is fired only after a small move of the finger
outside the app, on my desktop, i see that the small windows 7 cursor jumps immediately to where a finger is placed, meaning this issue isn't a hardware or a windows problem but rather how internally the flash app receives "translated" touch-to-mouse events from the os.
for example, in a windows Solitaire game, a simple touch to the screen immediately highlights the touched card.
in my app, a button will change to the down state only if i touch it and also move my finger slightly (click events - down and up - are triggered fine)
shouldn't the MOUSE_DOWN event trigger exactly like how a TOUCH_BEGIN would in the new touchevent class?
any ideas?
I encountered the same problem.
Setting the Multitouch.inputMode property to MultitouchInputMode.TOUCH_POINT (the default value is MultitouchInputMode.GESTURE) appears to make the MOUSE_DOWN event dispatch when the user touches the screen and not when they touch and move or touch and release.
If the cursor moves when they touch, then I assume the OS is just registering this as a MOUSE_MOVE and not a MOUSE_DOWN. Since it's a touchscreen, you could just consider MOUSE_MOVE a click since the user probably isn't actually dragging their finger around creating a real MOUSE_MOVE event.
Well, if they are actually dragging their finger around for stuff then you could assume a MOUSE_MOVE that suddenly places the cursor on a button (with no prior MOUSE_MOVE i.e. dragging), it's a MOUSE_DOWN.
Just bought a new touchscreen and encountered the problem again.
So the solution is to set Multitouch.inputMode to MultitouchInputMode.TOUCH_POINT by writing anywhere in your code:
Multitouch.inputMode = MultitouchInputMode.TOUCH_POINT;
Notice, that it does not work when testing by Ctrl+Enter in Flash Editor (at least in CC 2015). So, for example, you need to open .SWF separately in Flash Player.
EDIT: But it does work in Debug mode! (Ctrl+Shift+Enter)
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In my Angular 2 app I use a plain vanilla HTML5 input type "range" to provide the user a simple slider component.
<input type="range" [min]="x" [max]="y" (mouseup)="onReleased()" />
I need to know when the user released the slider. Releasing means that using a mouse the dragging is finished and the mouse button has been released. For that purpose I hook into the OnMouseUp event. However, this does not apply in case I use a touch device.
On my tablet I can drag the slider aroun, but when releasing it with my finger the event is no fired.
I know, this is not a mouse, but what event is equivalent to on mouse up and works on touch devices?
The answer to your question would appear to be the touchend event.
I assume there is a way to make the slider a touch surface within the wider Touch Events Web API
I'm creating a little developer console for an AS3 AIR application, I'm wanting F12 to add the toggle the display of the console screen but I don't want to litter my program with a bunch of calls to the Console to show or hide it, I also don't really want to be re-creating the console on different screens of my application.
I'm wondering if there's a way or a place I can put my keyboard event to toggle the display that will handle it across the entire application? At the moment I've tried putting it into my Main class which calls the first screen in the hopes that would be able to handle it but as soon as I click on another screen my eventListener isn't called.
Any ideas?
You could add your event listener to FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication instead of specific views, this would achieve the reduction you require
For true application level keyboard handling, attach the listener on the NativeApplication.nativeApplication object.
NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, toggleDevConsole,false,0,true);
Attaching the listener to the stage will only work when that particular stage (window) has the focus. This will become an issue if your application has multiple windows that require interaction.
For single window applications, either will work.
Woops, I'm not quite with it today!
For future reference I added the event listener to the Stage in my Main function and it's being picked up every time.
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, toggleDevConsole, false, 0, true);
On a Dell Inspiron One TouchScreen All-in-one computer, I'm trying to use startTouchDrag() but it is not working. The monitor sends TouchEvent.TOUCH_BEGIN and TouchEVENT.TOUCH_END but no TOUCH_MOVE when I drag my finger. My event handlers are running correctly when I touch and let go but the Sprite is not dragging. Any ideas what could be missing?
Backstory
I have an AIR application which ran fine on an ELO touch screen. The user would drag certain items and place them into a bucket. The application listened for MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, upon which it would start startDragDrop(). On MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP it would do stopDragDrop(). On the Dell, it didn't work because when you touch the screen, it fires a simultaneous MOUSE_DOWN then MOUSE_UP event... which respectively runs startDragDrop then stopDragDrop immediately killing the drag and drop functionality. Only the TouchEvents fire correctly upon touching and letting go.
Update. Problem solved. Downgraded to Air 3.7 and everything worked perfectly. With all original Mouse listeners, no touch listeners at all. This thread led me in the downgrade direction: flashdevelop.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10972
My problem is really simple
I´ve an artifact with a mouse inside. When you use it it simulates moving the mouse cursor indefinitely to the right.
Of course when i run my project at some point the mouse will reach the right side of the movieclip and the Mouse_Move event wont work anymore
I need a way make my actionscript to recongnise mouse movement even if im out of bounds
(It´s a mobile aplication so using full screen wont work)
In other words i need a Mouse-Motion Listener!
Though it is not possible to track mouse movements outside of flash with only ActionScript, you could capture the mouse position with javascript in the browser and pass it to your SWF.
See this blog as an example. http://www.nelsond8.com/?p=515
You cannot track the mouse position or actions when it moves outside of the stage.
You can however track when the mouse actually leaves the stage using Event.MOUSE_LEAVE:
function mouseLeave(e:Event):void
{
trace("Mouse left the stage.");
}
stage.addEventListener(Event.MOUSE_LEAVE, mouseLeave);
From here you can decide what the most appropriate course of action will be for your application - adding some 'pause' functionality is pretty common.
Tip: MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE is what you should use to detect when the mouse re-enters the stage.
I'm creating a DDR-like game for an assignment and my keyboard seems to respond and trace it, but only if I press on the screen with the mouse first.
How can I get rid of that and just have it respond right away?
right_mc is the arrow that's moving
ArrowRight_mc is the arrow at the top
perfect_mc should pop up briefly
and so should a glowing arrow where it hits.
Here is what I have so far:
if(rightDown){
trace("right arrow");
if(right_mc){
if(right_mc.y >= ArrowRight_mc.y){
perfect_mc.visible = true;
glowRight_mc.visible = true;
}
}
}
This has been a long standing issue for Flash developers. Flash needs keyboard focus before it can detect keyboard events.
The problem is that the browser does not give focus to the SWF until the user clicks somewhere inside the SWF. This does make sense though. I don't want the web page I am on to lose focus just because there is a flash movie embedded somewhere. This is a security feature, to stop things like Flash banner ads being silent key loggers. However there are some instances that it makes sense to force the focus e.g. a Flash game where its the only thing on the HTML page.
Usually the best thing to do is have start menu screen with a "play" button. This forces the user to click on the SWF without even knowing about this "focus issue".
There is more info at the Adobe Technote - Giving keyboard focus to an embedded Flash movie.
***EDIT****
Whether the Flash has focus or not, only affects keyboard events. It will not affect code from running, movieclips from playing, or sounds/video from playing.
The issue here is that the embedded SWF file does not have focus when the screen first loads. You can assign focus to it using JavaScript but in my experience, this does not always work 100% of the time because of variations in the way browsers interpret JS. What a lot of people do is have a big START button following the load of the game so that players have to click on the SWF to begin playing. Some sites, even use JS to detect when the game has lost focus and will pause the game and alert the user.
I suppose I haven't exactly answered your question because I'm not that great at JavaScript but I hope this points you in the right direction.
In response to your comment...
I'm unclear on something. If you have to click to start the song then you've already clicked on the SWF and you should be getting keyboard events, right? So if you're having to click to start then click again, maybe you need to make sure your mouse listener is at the root of your display list.
// in your document class / main AS file...
this.stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onKeyDown);
Or perhaps you need to poll for input during an EnterFrame loop rather than listen for key events.
I know what you mean. You have a specific object on the stage that needs focus before keyboard events will trigger. I'm having the same issues with a game here. A sprite needs to move with the keyboard arrows but the container needs focus so it will respond. I'm just setting the object I want to move to be tabEnabled as my requirements are only for accessibility purposes so tabbing to the object first will give it keyboard control.