How to detect mouseover of line drawing

Question

I have a series of lines that I draw onto my canvas. I would
like to be able to detect the mouseover for the specific line then
based on the line show certain information. I can create a
mouseover for a button or object, but am unsure of how to do this
for a specific line being drawn on the canvas. Any direction would
be great, Thanks!

Answer 1

I was drawing the line and assigning it to a MovieClip.
The code in Flash 8 for the function that does that is:
drawLines = function():Void{
myColor = this.color_ = 0x000000;
myLine = this.linea = 5;
if(origin) {
x1 = Canvas._xmouse;
y1 = Canvas._ymouse;
origin = !origin;
msg.text ="Move and click the mouse where you want to end
the line";
msgFormat();
} else{
x2 = Canvas._xmouse;
y2 = Canvas._ymouse;
Canvas.createEmptyMovieClip("line"+nLines,Canvas.getNextHighestDepth());
Canvas["line"+nLines].lineStyle (myLine, myColor, 100);
Canvas["line"+nLines].moveTo (x1,y1);
Canvas["line"+nLines].lineTo (x2,y2);
Canvas["line"+nLines].p1 = {x:x1, y:y1};
Canvas["line"+nLines].p2 = {x:x2, y:y2};
gsbTrace("p1= "+Canvas["line"+nLines].p1.x +" p2=
"+Canvas["line"+nLines].p2.x);
drawing = false;
msg.text ="To draw another line, click on 'Draw Routes'
again\n\nTo delete the line click on it and then on 'Delete
Selected Object'";
msgFormat();
nLines ++;
for(var sInstance:String in Canvas) {
Canvas[sInstance].onPress = function():Void {
mSelected = null;
lSelected = this;
l_selected.text = lSelected._name;
index = lSelected._name.substr(1);
var myColor:Number = 0xFF0000;
lSelected.clear();
lSelected.lineStyle (5, myColor, 100);
lSelected.moveTo (lSelected.p1.x,lSelected.p1.y);
lSelected.lineTo (lSelected.p2.x,lSelected.p2.y);
myDragger._visible = false;
gsbTrace("lSelected... "+ lSelected);
In Flex, instead of creating the line in a MovieClip, you can
put it on a sprite (basically a component) using the addChild
method.
I hope this helps.
Gilbert