Mousedown

Alright, I did some searching around but couldn't find anything really similar to my situation (I was suprised) and with my google search some guy had the same problem, but the solution was a link that is now broken.
How do I make a script on my button that says "If the mouse is down, something happens?"
I don't want it to be on release, but so that it does one thing when the mouse is held down, and another if the mouse is released.
I tried many things, but they all ended up in some error code, so help would be appreciated
Thanks
Spaghetee

Really depends upon what you mean by this. People often confuse onMouseDown/onMouseUp with onPress/onRelease. The mouse versions just listen for the mouse going down and up, whereas onPress/onRelease check to see if the mouse has been clicked up/down ON a specific movieclip or button.
So, make two movieclips called myClip0 and myClip1
myClip0.onPress=tracePress;
myClip1.onPress=tracePress;
myClip0.onMouseDown=traceDown;
myClip1.onMouseDown=traceDown;
function tracePress(){
trace(this._name+" was pressed.");
function traceDown(){
trace("The mouse goes down and "+this._name+" knows it.");
And you will see how the traces are different depending upon if you click down on one of the clips or not. So hopefully that may answer any first bit of your question. I'm going to assume that you want the onMouseDown. So just do what you want to happen:
var home:MovieClip=this;
home.onMouseDown=startDown;
home.onMouseUp=stopDown;
function startDown(){
//do what you want;
function stopDown(){
//stop what you want
Now you might want something to happen continuously while the mouse is down. Not sure what that might be, but you could use an onEnterFrame, then your functions might look like this:
function startDown(){
home.onEnterFrame=doAbunch;
function stopDown(){
delete home.onEnterFrame;
function doAbunch(){
trace("I'm doing something over and over until you let go!");
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