Comments on: Difference between MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER and MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER in AS3

By: vulf

vulf — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:54:45 +0000

This is the Best explanation found, and very very clear examples!! Thank you very much!!

One may use hitArea property (movieclip pr.) to fire-up the event for a custom area.

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private var _surface:MovieClip;
_surface = getChildByName(“surface”) as MovieClip;
hitArea = _surface;
mouseChildren = false;
…

By: kaplan

kaplan — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:12:06 +0000

thanks for the clear explanation and demo!!

it doesn’t seem to work the same for objects inside the container. for example if you had 2 objects that overlapped inside the big object and used ROLL_OVER and ROLL_OUT for those. if you rollover 1 and then over 2 while still being over 1, the out would fire for 1 as the over fires for 2. or maybe i’m crazy.

By: Mohit Manuja

Mohit Manuja — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:55:53 +0000

that was awesome !! helped me immensely..i was going crazy over the difference

By: biteuljiouce

biteuljiouce — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:57:36 +0000

the best explanation i’ve seen
thanks

By: Kawika

Kawika — Fri, 20 May 2011 23:37:46 +0000

Thanks for this! Adobe needs to update their docs!

By: TFM

TFM — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:53:01 +0000

Lol … first you state “I don’t know how much [event bubbling] impacts on the behavior of the event” and then you demonstrate, using working examples, that ALL of the difference between mouse_over and roll_over is caused by the events being bubbling or not…

OK I’ll be a little more constructive If an event bubbles, it means it traverses up the display list, all the way to the listener. Meaning in plain English that you’ll catch the mouse events of children of a button as well. If you want a menu to open/close AND you want the buttons to be clickable, you can’t use mouseChildren = false (it would render the buttons useless) and also you don’t want catch the over/out events of the children since that would open/close the menu every time your mouse goes from button to button. Hence you don’t want bubbling events.

By: tarun

tarun — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:16:52 +0000

thanx
this has taken me out of the mess of the two. my students often ask me of the difference but i have no answer to tell them than to say next time again.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:51:56 +0000

Does anyone know anywhere were there is tutorial to create button like this that fade in and out when you roll over and out…. been looking to learn how to do this kinda thing for ages but can’t find a tutorial for it…. even a sample document would be awesome just so i can see how its done

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By: Broady

Broady — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:32:05 +0000

Thank You.