flex3 button state

Question

Hi there,

I would like to change the state of a flex button component with actionscript (on the fly) to present it as mouse-down/mouse-over/mouse-up, in order to use the css skining with out the existence of the mouse cursor. I tried to do this with button.currentState but this doesn't work.

thanks in advance

Answer 1

Try using styles to set the skins, not states.

If you want to display those states on the fly, you could dispatch the events form the buttons when you need to.

e.g.

//do roll over
yourButton.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER));
//do roll out
yourButton.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT));
//do press
yourButton.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN));
//do release
yourButton.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP));