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Comment on AS3 mouseEnabled not working with nested Movieclips by Simon Rawicz

Simon Rawicz — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:49:39 +0000

Hi Jeff, I noticed having similarly battled between mouse bleed’s was that alternating between MOUSE_OVER and ROLL_OVER also gave for better control, combined with stringent mouseChildren regulation they both complemented each other and helped resolve many issues…

Keep up the good work!

Comment on AS3 mouseEnabled not working with nested Movieclips by blacktom

blacktom — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:43:30 +0000

Simply remove the relevant eventListeners and then re-add them. Only that worked for me…

Comment on As3 buttons – hand cursor not displaying by Jose Alejandro Realza

Jose Alejandro Realza — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:03:50 +0000

Also is necessary use

useHandCursor = true;
buttonMode = true;
mouseChildren = false;

Comment on You Arent Gonna Need It – Code Reuse by Michael L

Michael L — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:14:42 +0000

This was an interesting observation. I’m not a coder, I’m an Instructional Designer and my profession has a similar philosophy of “shareable content objects” meaning you can put a bit of training from one course in to another, blah blah blah…always thought it was bull–and could never figure out how it should work. I do some actionscript writing and I do find that I am able to leverage what I’ve done in other projects into current projects, but not in situ or en toto — the same with training materials.

Comment on As3 buttons – hand cursor not displaying by Panda

Panda — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:24:44 +0000

I love how many people are declaring their love for you here.
Genius and super simple fix. Thanks so much for posting, you saved me hours of messing.

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Comment on As3 buttons – hand cursor not displaying by Ronnie

Ronnie — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:35:16 +0000

This fix is brilliant ! You are Awesome! Thanks so much!!

Comment on Designing and developing for interactive whiteboards by Mat Janson Blanchet

Mat Janson Blanchet — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:49:11 +0000

Great tips!

I may add another one: use a press and hold for draggable lists.

On computers and mobile devices, people intrinsically know that when they release their finger, the event will be trigger, whereas on a projected board it may not be natural to do so.

Listening to a press down event is good to trigger thing like simple buttons. But what if you have a draggable list, à la iPhone’s contact lists?

Pressing and holding would be key in that case. Display a timer to show that the user is holding, but as soon as the user starts dragging, remove the timer and simply drag the list container. It makes a world of difference!

Comment on Designing and developing for interactive whiteboards by David Robertshaw

David Robertshaw — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:48:06 +0000

Tom,
Nice overview. I think you mentioned almost everything we’ve had to consider. Another issue developers may need to address is the lack of a keyboard at the student’s fingertips. If any key input is required, your software will need to either rely on the onscreen keyboard that comes with the IWB (which can be visually complex), or will need to provide a custom keyboard. In our case, we created a custom number pad to simplify entering numbers. Wherever possible, we also emphasize dragging and dropping important vocabulary words, rather than requiring the user to type.

Comment on AS3 mouseEnabled not working with nested Movieclips by Cristian

Cristian — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:54:14 +0000

Yes setting the parent to mouseEnabled = false and mouseChildren = false works.