Comments on: Disabling Mouse Events in AS3

By: keeners

keeners — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:40:43 +0000

I had a custom mouse cursor that swapped icons on mouse_down (stage listener), and found myself wondering where my double_click events underneath the mouse cursor were going. I now have a new best practice - always disable the custom cursor if used. Hopefully this saves someone some grief

custom_mouse_cursor.mouseChildren = false;
custom_mouse_cursor.mouseEnabled = false;

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:26:50 +0000

If by underlying you mean inside the movieclip or display object you just disabled, you’ll want to do as ramiro suggested, by using something like mc.mouseChildren = false;

Not quite sure what you mean about the masks. Masks by themselves (as far as I know) do not receive mouse events. If you want to stop something from receiving mouse events, you have to use mouseEnabled = false on each and every one. But this would only be pertinent if you actually have event listeners for the underlying objects, like mcUnderneath.addEventListener( etc…

By: fred

fred — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:26:11 +0000

How would you go about masks ?
This doesn’t seem to stop it from blocking mouseEvents on underlying objects..?
Unless i’m missing something..

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:40:39 +0000

Hey ramiro, yes I did find that out soon after I wrote this post. I am glad to say that whatever doubts I’ve had about moving to AS3 is completely gone, it’s just flat out better than AS2.

By: Ramiro

Ramiro — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:45:57 +0000

this is a little old, but there’s a way to solve the children mouseEnabled problem:
mc.mouseEnabled = false;
mc.mouseChildren = false;