 | AS3: Closing a movie clip with a mouse click?
on May 8, 2012 at 8:29:38 pm |
I have a button that loads a movie clip and I want to be able to close that same movieclip by clicking anywhere.
This is my code so far:
btn_2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goBio);
function goBio (e:MouseEvent):void {
var newBio:BioToc = new BioToc();
this.addChild(newBio);
newBio.x = 25;
newBio.y = 45;
}
 | Re: AS3: Closing a movie clip with a mouse click? on May 9, 2012 at 8:18:12 am |
Hi Ben,
The easiest way to do that is by creating an invisible movie on top of the entire swf...
This code should do the trick (I wrote this without the help of my editor, so it might contain some syntax errors :)):
var newBio:BioToc;
var invisMC:MovieClip;
btn_2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, goBio);
function goBio (e:MouseEvent):void {
newBio = new BioToc();
this.addChild(newBio);
newBio.x = 25;
newBio.y = 45;
invisMC = new MovieClip();
invisMC.graphics.clear();
invisMC.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000, 0); // will fill the movieclip with a red color
invisMC.graphics.drawRectangle(0, 0, stage.stageWidth, stage.stageHeight);
invisMC.graphics.endFill();
invisMC.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, closeHandler, false, 0, true);
this.addChild(invisMC);
}
function closeHandler(e:MouseEvent):void {
this.removeChild(newBio);
this.removeChild(invisMC);
newBio = null;
invisMC = null;
}
Kind regards,
Pieter
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