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Re: Make simultaneously or sequentially moveable and editable fields or text sprites in movie.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 31 May 2014 16:49:23 GMT

Thank you for the solution. I like how you worked around the dilemma I faced by allowing the editability of the sprite to be controlled by the property manager leaving only the draggable issue for the mousedown handler. It works 99% well. Only problem is that while dragging some of the text becomes highlighted some of the time and it looks a bit cludgy. But certainly much better than where I started! Thanks again.

Rod

Re: Make simultaneously or sequentially moveable and editable fields or text sprites in movie.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 31 May 2014 13:28:39 GMT

Just set your text properties in the property inspector and attach a drag sprite behavior.

-- Drag sprite

property sp -- this sprite

property pStartLoc -- sprite location upon mouseDown

property pMouseStart -- mouse location upon mouseDown

property pMoving -- flag for enterFrame. True/False

on beginSprite me

sp = sprite(me.spriteNum)

pMoving = false

end beginSprite

on mouseDown me

pStartLoc = sp.loc

pMouseStart = _mouse.mouseLoc

pMoving = true

end mouseDown

on mouseUp me

pMoving = false

end

on mouseUpoutside me

pMoving = false

end

on enterFrame me

if not pMoving then exit

deltaMouse = _mouse.mouseLoc - pMouseStart

sp.loc = pStartLoc + deltaMouse

end enterFrame

Re: Make simultaneously or sequentially moveable and editable fields or text sprites in movie.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 30 May 2014 14:44:44 GMT

Just a quick p.s. I have been able to achieve the desired action by using an if-then loop on the mousedown. But this is extremely confusing for the users who never know from one moment to the next if they are moving or inputting.

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property spritenum

on mouseenter me
sprite(spritenum).moveablesprite = true
sprite(spritenum).editable = false
end

on mouseleave me
sprite(spritenum).editable = false
sprite(spritenum).moveablesprite = false

end

on mousedown me
if sprite(spritenum).moveablesprite = true then

    sprite(spritenum).moveablesprite = false
    sprite(spritenum).editable = true
else
    sprite(spritenum).moveablesprite = true
    sprite(spritenum).editable = false
end if

end

Make simultaneously or sequentially moveable and editable fields or text sprites in movie.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 30 May 2014 14:29:58 GMT

I am having a bit of a problem with creating field or text sprites that are both editable and moveable. I want a user to be able to enter text into the sprites and move them around on the stage to serve as labels for schematics they are making. I can easily make them moveable or editable, but when trying to do both one property interferes with the other. I have been using various combinations of the properties on the mouseenter, mouseleave, and mousedown handlers. One version of my non-workable efforts are below. Seems I can move a sprite but once editable gets focus can't move it anymore. Any ideas?

rod

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property spritenum

on mouseenter me
sprite(spritenum).moveablesprite = true

sprite(spritenum).editable = false
end
on mouseleave me
sprite(spritenum).editable = false
sprite(spritenum).moveablesprite = false

end

on mousedown me
sprite(spritenum).moveablesprite = true
sprite(spritenum).editable = false
end

on mouseup me
sprite(spritenum).moveablesprite = false
sprite(spritenum).editable = true
end