[solved] CLIK components and movieclip events

[Lybra]

Hi there,

to be honest I really start to hate Scaleform for more than one reason, so I hope to find some assistance with my current problem. I am trying to build a simple inventory bar at the bottom of the screen (like most point&click adventures). So far I managed to get a basic mouse interface via Scaleform and it's working ... except for one thing:

There is no hit detection for HUD elements, whenever I click a button I also click inside the game world.

I read about this issue in several threads:
http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/...uring-Gameplay
http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/...nd-UI-for-RTS)

So I came up with the idea to add a RollOver/Out event for the movie clip containing all my inventory elements (background, buttons, etc.):

inventory_mc.onRollOver = function() {
	ExternalInterface.call("HitInventory", true);
}

inventory_mc.onRollOut = function() {
	ExternalInterface.call("HitInventory", false);
}

While I solve the inital problem with this, every CLIK element stops working. Since I am not really familiar with Flash and ActionScript, I really hope someone can explain me why this is happening and how I can fix it.

Thank you!

[piotrO]

It's hard to tell without seeing your actual Flash file. But if you put every CLIK component into one movieclip and add a Roll Over listener to it then the inventory_mc will get all the Roll Over events. So the CLIK components won't receive any Roll Overs and they won't work. Try to add Roll Over/Out events to each and every component.
It's not a Scaleform issue its a AS2 'feature'.

[Lybra]

Thank you piotrO!

Seems like AS2 has some nice 'features'