Flash 8 AS2 Mouse click behaviour: clicked spot becomes unclickable until mouse moved

Question

Hi all

I have a series of buttons on the stage, they can be double clicked using a timer that detects a double click. this all works great until I refresh the page and load another lot of buttons. The the problem starts...

If I click on a spot on the screen I am unable to reclick that same spot. I have to move the mouse slightly to be able to click again. This is causing problems for detecting double click - now its click move click!

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I have had this problem too in the past and I'm pretty sure I solved it back then. I've been digging through some code but I can't find the code I was looking for but checking out the documentation for the MovieClip object I'm pretty sure it can solved by setting the focusEnabled property of your MovieClip to true (but I could be wrong :).

I will have another look for the code I was looking for but I need to get in out of backed up storage somewhere...

Answer 2

Hi. This is not an answer but just a methodology, because to answer your question I'd need to fire up a Flash IDE using AS 2.0 (which I try to forget, generally, as I use 3.0 so rarely) and set up a test harness with JUST THE PROBLEM, as you see it. I think once you do that you'd find that either:

1) you've found a real bug in Flash (doubtful), which then will have its answer plastered all over the Internet 2) Most probably: your test harness does NOT exhibit the weird behavior. Then it is a question of figuring out how your real program differs from your test harness. 3) This is really cool: your test harness doesn't work either. Then you put a zip of the .fla in some Web location and we can download it and figure out what's up.

I've looked at some posts about the double click thing in AS2.0 but no one has mentioned this problem.

Answer 3

Hey Guys,

I've the very same Problem with CS3 and AS2.0. Has anyone a solution to this problem so far??? I've been trying to solve it for days in a complex Lotery Application.

In this thread http://www.actionscripts.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=141081 I've found the suggestion to lower the frame rate to 12fps but this didn't help either...