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Babsi
Babsi

Reputation: 21

addEventListener not working AS3

in my AS3 Code I have added this simple EventListener:

addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, mouseMoveHandler);

there are no errors or anything else, but when I trace something in my mouseMoveHandler it doesn't export something to my console

protected function mouseMoveHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
        {
            trace("mouseMoved")
        }

First I thought this problem shouldn't be so difficult, and I suspect that this has something to do with the stage (addEventListener isn't at the top of it). When I googled it I found something about bubbling, but this just works with dispatch Event or? Thank you in advance for your help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1354

Answers (1)

Florian Salihovic
Florian Salihovic

Reputation: 3951

The stage itself doesn't dispatch a mouseMove - actually i didn't know about it. You rarely work with the stage directly. It works whit a child though as expected.

package
{
  import flash.display.Sprite;
  import flash.events.MouseEvent;

  public class TheMouse extends Sprite
  {
    public function TheMouse()
    {
      addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, mouseMoveHandler);

      const background:Sprite = new Sprite();
      background.graphics.beginFill(0);
      background.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 100, 100);
      background.graphics.endFill();
      addChild(background);
    }

    private function mouseMoveHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
    {
      trace('mouseMoveHandler');
    }
  }
}

Upvotes: 1

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