Mouse not working with MovieClip

July 4th, 2008

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Clicking not working in AS3? 
If you change your mouse to a movieclip by say using: Mouse.hide(); and then simply make the movieclip’s x and y equal to the mouse x and y (stage.mouseX & stage.MouseY) you will run into trouble if the point mouseX and mouseY are not clear. You will always be clicking on […]

Smooth MovieClip Key Control in AS3

July 3rd, 2008

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In Flash Actionscript 3.0 it is not as simple as AS2 to create a smooth control of a movieclip’s movement. You may find the key engages, then pauses for half a second, then continues. This is no good for gaming. Also the basic KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN event listener will only handle one key at a time, so you can not […]