ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

Button.onDragOut() Event Handler

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ActionScript Language Reference

// Assign button handlers

ok_btn.onRelease = doAction;

cancel_btn.onRelease = doAction;

Or, if we’re looking for a single button in a group of unknown buttons, we can use a for-in

loop to hunt for the button’s instance name:

// Access all properties of someClip

for (var p in someClip) {

// If it's a Button object...

if (someClip[p] instanceof Button) {

// ...show its name:

trace("Found " + someClip[p]._name);

// Look for edit_btn

if (someClip[p]._name = = "edit_btn") {

// Disable the edit button.

someClip[p].enabled = false;

}

}

}

See Also

Button.onRelease(), “The for-in Loop,” in Chapter 8

Button.onDragOut() Event Handler

occurs when the depressed mouse is rolled off a Flash button

Flash 6; on (dragOut) supported since Flash 2

theButton.onDragOut()

on (dragOut) {

statements

}

Description

The onDragOut() event handler executes when the primary mouse button is depressed

while the mouse pointer is in

theButton’s hit area, and then, while the mouse button is still

depressed, the pointer is moved out of the hit area. It is similar to onRollOut(), except that

it is generated only if the mouse button is down when the pointer leaves a button’s hit area.

The onDragOut() event is followed by either the onReleaseOutside() event (if