Love the class!
Just one small thing…
I’m importing the class into my main.fla and i’m trying to track the progress of the loading image from within this fla. (so that I can build a loading bar).
Any tips?

Thanks

Ben

Thanks that worked!

you got that error becuase probably you put the line “import flash.text.TextField” in the timeline of the main document.
instead you have to out the cose in the main.as

http://www.dangleberries.com/

(Click on a thumbnail once inside the site to see what I mean).

Thanks!

Bye.

What I found out (for a different project) was that MOUSE_MOVE seems to active when you MOUSE_DOWN as well, so for instance I was creating a video player who’s controls faded out when the mouse left the stage but I found that when the user was clicking, or selecting text, etc on other parts of the site the controls would appear. This got to me to using a hitTestPoint() with the mouse and stage to make sure that the user’s mouse was actually interacting with the Flash movie, and to cut a long story short it worked like dream.

So I thought I’d try the same method with the parallax box and it also worked rather nicely. I added this method to the class:

private function isOverStage():Boolean
{
var mouseX:Number = stage.mouseX;
var mouseY:Number = stage.mouseY;
return stage.hitTestPoint(mouseX, mouseY, false);
}

then I wrapped the contents of the onFrame() method already in the class with a simple if statement:

private function onFrame(e:Event):void {
if (isOverStage())
{
[rest of existing code]
}
}

This means that the parallax box will still finish off the movement it started before the mouse left the stage, which I found looked a bit smoother than pausing.

Though I don’t have a mac so it would be great if I could get you to test for me.

I actually think the image is reloading on the Mac. I see the loader again immediately after clicking off the browser, but the image won’t appear again until I click back on the browser, as if the stage click reloads the image.

Anyone have an idea how to fix this? My boss is on a Mac, so not having it work on a Mac isn’t an option! For an example of what happens, I’ve uploaded the example provided here, exactly as downloaded, no mods. Here’s a link: http://www.jupiterxo.com/fullScreen/bin/PanningMain.html