Question

how to detect if mouse is not on stage when the stage is fullscreen

Asked by: mankis

I have an exe file that opens fullscreen. When I press button on that exe file opens another exe file but the first one stays in the back. Both have background music, so when the other one opens you hear both background musics.
I made an function when you press a button that volume of the first exe file sets to 0
on(release){
      fscommand("exec", "newexe.exe");
      soundVolume=0;      
}
and on main actionscript I put this code, so when someone closes the second exe and returnes to the first one and makes first mouse move that sound again apears
onMouseMove = function () {
      soundVolume=25;
};

But :)
if someone clikcs a button that opens new exe and also makes a quick move with mouse before the second exe opens the sound will play anyway.
Please help and thank you for any suggestions?

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2008-06-07 at 04:46:47ID23465924
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Answers

 

by: tomaugerdotcomPosted on 2008-06-07 at 05:41:24ID: 21735237

The problem is that you're dealing with two separate EXEs. If there is any way to have the second movie play INSIDE the first movie, that would solve all your problems.

This would be based on the standard process of loading an external SWF (not EXE) into your main projector.

There is a lot of examples of this online:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00001562.html

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/moviecliploader.htm

Okay, but I'm assuming you knew this already and there's a very specific reason why you must use two separate EXEs. Because of that, there's no way that I know of that one EXE can communicate with the other, unless you use sharedobjects (more on that later).

A very quick, very easy example would be to use some kind of delay. Only activate the onMouseMove event listener AFTER a certain amount of time has elapsed, so that gives the other EXE time to open in front of the first.

 

by: tomaugerdotcomPosted on 2008-06-07 at 06:14:48ID: 21735331

Here's a little AS2 code that I wrote that illustrates the principle of putting in a delay.

Instead of playing a sound, I start and stop an animation (it was quicker to set that up than find a sound to play!).

There's a button that, on click, does a bunch of things:
1. it stops the animation (stops the sound)
2. it launches the external EXE via fscommand
3. it starts an onenterFrame loop that increases the counter until it reaches an arbitrary maximum time (in this case, 100).

When we hit that 100th frame, the onMouseMove event handler is created.
So after 100 frames of delay, when you move the mouse, the animation will play again (the sound will play in your case).

I'll be the first to admit that this code could certainly be cleaner, and if you're using AS3, you need to be more formal with your event registration, but this quick n dirty hack should get you through.

I'm going to follow this up with a SharedObject example, more for my own elucidation than anything else.

T

var delay:Number = 0;
var maxDelay:Number = 100;
 
btLaunch.addEventListener("click", btLaunchClick);
 
function btLaunchClick (evt:Object){
	mcAnim.stop();
	fscommand("exec", "delay2.exe");
	
	onEnterFrame = function(){
		txDelay.text = delay;
		delay++;
		if (delay > maxDelay){
			onEnterFrame = function (){};
			onMouseMove = function(){ mcAnim.play(); }
		} 
	}
		
}

                                              
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by: mankisPosted on 2008-06-07 at 06:29:16ID: 21735378

Thank  you for your help :)

 

by: tomaugerdotcomPosted on 2008-06-07 at 08:07:01ID: 21735796

Ho ho ho - it took fricken two hours, because I tell ya, SharedObjects are tricky things - there's built in caching - sometimes the sharedObject does not actually write to the localSharedObject file, even when you think you're telling it to, and it certainly does not READ from the file unless you really force it to.

So, after much blood sweat and tears, here's some code that does (I think) exactly what you want it to do:

1. from the first exe, you press a button to launch the second exe
1a. that button click sets a local SharedObject and sets a status to "launched"
1b. the animation (ie: your "sound file") is stopped
1c. an enterFrame loop waits for the SharedObject's status value to change to "complete"

2. the second exe loads up
2a. it accesses the very same SharedObject and sets the status to "complete"

1d. the enterFrame loop on the first exe detects that the status has changed to complete, and it activates the mouseMove function
1e. you move your mouse in the first movie and the animation (ie: your sound) starts playing again.

Some things to remember:
For both exe's to access the sharedObject, you must set the path to "/" as I have done in the code
It is CRITICAL that you watch the SCOPE of your SharedObject variable. If there's any chance that the SO variable that SETS the status to "launch" comes into the same scope as the SO variable that READS the status in enterFrame, then the value is cached, and will not be read in real-time from the local hard drive. In other words, it will not realize that the other exe has changed the sharedObject value (unless you close exe 1 and open it again, and then - miracles - it reads the SO from the drive).

Hope this works for you. I have not tested this online.

// exe #1 code:
btLaunch.addEventListener("click", btLaunchClick);
function btLaunchClick(evt:Object){
	var sharedSO:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("launchStatus", "/");
	sharedSO.data.launchStatus = "launched";
	sharedSO.flush();
 
	onMouseMove = function() { }
	mcAnim.stop();
	
	fscommand("exec", "sharedSO2.exe");
}
 
onEnterFrame = function(){
	var sharedSO:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("launchStatus", "/");
	txLaunchStatus.text = sharedSO.data.launchStatus;
 
	if (sharedSO.data.launchStatus == "complete"){
		onMouseMove = function(){
			mcAnim.play();
		}
	}
}
 
 
 
// exe #2 code:
var sharedSO:SharedObject = SharedObject.getLocal("launchStatus", "/");
sharedSO.data.launchStatus = "complete";
sharedSO.flush();
 
 
onEnterFrame = function(){
	txLaunchStatus.text = sharedSO.data.launchStatus;
}

                                              
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by: mankisPosted on 2008-06-08 at 02:58:39ID: 21738001

hey, this is great! thank you so much!  :)))))))))))))
I need this for CD presentation so it won't be used online

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