AS3 and ability to handle dragout events

Question

I'm making the switch to AS3 and am working on a new flash
game for work that will be written in AS3.
I'm adding the event handling to some buttons but am running
across some issues.
since the onDragOut event has been replaced with the generic
MOUSE_OUT event, how do you guys suggest handling instances where
the user presses a button, roll out of the button and doesn't
release the mouse, and then roll back over the button?
Here is the code I am using to create the event handling for
buttons:
btn_path.buttonMode = true;
rollOverHandler = function() {
btn_path.gotoAndStop('over');
rollOutHandler = function() {
btn_path.gotoAndStop('out');
mouseDownHandler = function() {
btn_path.gotoAndStop('down');
mouseUpHandler = function() {
btn_path.gotoAndStop('over');
btn_path.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER,rollOverHandler);
btn_path.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT,rollOutHandler);
btn_path.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,mouseDownHandler);
btn_path.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,mouseUpHandler);
Do you guys know of any other solution or workaround because
as the code currently is, if a user rolls out after pressing the
button (not releasing), when they roll back over, they go to the
over state instead of the down state.
I've tried adding flags to know when a button was pressed,
etc.; however that gets ugly and problematic.
I'd like to know how you guys implement your buttons events
and what you do for the events.
I'm currently using movieclips for my buttons.

Answer 1

Either you use TVIEW or TIVEW2 there is a field called <b>CLICK</b> you can fill this with the event name. (e.g mynodeclick')
if you have this property filled in , after the tree is rendered you can click on the node which will generate server event which you can capture oninputprocessing.
DATA: event      TYPE REF TO if_htmlb_data .
DATA: tree_event TYPE REF TO  cl_htmlb_event_tree.
event = cl_htmlb_manager=>get_event( request ).
if event->event_name = htmlb_events=>tree.
CLEAR : tree_event .
    tree_event ?= event.
MOVE: tree_event->node . " This is the current node clicked
endif .
Also check out the following weblog .
/people/durairaj.athavanraja/blog/2004/11/21/bsphow-to-build-performance-efficient-dynamic-htmlbtree
Regards
Raja