Synchronizing Mouse Events on 2 flash files

Hi, I am developing an application that shares images and swf
files. There is a master and slave swf. The way we have it in mind
is to have a flash wrapper that contains the swf file or image that
wants to be shared on both master and slave. Now for instance, if I
click on an item in swf object inside the wrapper of the master
which starts some kind of animation, i would like to pass the x and
y co-ordinates that was clicked in the master down to the slave and
trigger the click event at the same position on the slave on the
swf object.
I don't think that this is much of an issue to get the x and
y co-ordinates. My question is, is it possible to trigger the click
even inside the slave wrapper on the swf object, which will cause
the same animation to start playing ?
Reason being we have tons of swf content written in both
Action Script 2 and 3 and need to make this as generic as possible
without having to rewrite the swf's. Just want to include them in
the wrapper.

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Somebody please help:
I've taught myself enough with Flash to customize a
fully-Flash template for my wife's website, and two of the buttons
didn't do what I wanted them to in Actionscript. They then began
giving me the message:
**Error** Symbol=sub_butt1, layer=Layer 4, frame=1:Line 1:
Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on (rollOver) {
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on (releaseOutside, rollOut) {
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plus earlier versions where I hadn't even messed with the buttons
yet.
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Hello Corbett,
The error is saying that you are trying to apply a button
action to something
other than a button. Often this happens when you select the
frame that the
button is on instead of the actual button, thus applying the
action to the
frame instead of the button.
Make sure you select the button on the stage and then apply
the actions there.
You'll probably have to remove the action from the frame
before it will work
(looks like it's on Layer 4 frame 1).
Good luck!
Jesse H.
Adobe Community Expert
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http://www.jharding.com
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> Somebody please help:
> I've taught myself enough with Flash to customize a
fully-Flash
> template for
> my wife's website, and two of the buttons didn't do what
I wanted them
> to in
> Actionscript. They then began giving me the message:
>
> **Error** Symbol=sub_butt1, layer=Layer 4, frame=1:Line
1: Mouse
> events are
> permitted only for button instances
> on (rollOver) {
> **Error** Symbol=sub_butt1, layer=Layer 4, frame=1:Line
4: Mouse
> events are
> permitted only for button instances
> on (releaseOutside, rollOut) {
> Total ActionScript Errors: 2 Reported Errors: 2
>
> Not only do I not know how to fix this, the same message
comes up for
> every
> single button in the entire fla I had saved, plus
earlier versions
> where I
> hadn't even messed with the buttons yet.
> Any suggestions?

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at index_fla::MainTimeline/Down3()"
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var loader:Loader;
var loader2:Loader;
var loader3:Loader;
var loader1:Loader;
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function resizeHandler(event:Event):void {
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loader.x = (stage.stageWidth - loader.width) * .5;
loader.y = (stage.stageHeight - loader.height) * .5;
// resizes about page to center
loader3.x = (stage.stageWidth - 482) * .5 - 260;
loader3.y = (stage.stageHeight - 492) * .5 - 140;
/*loader2.x = (stage.stageWidth - 658.65) * .5;
loader2.y = (stage.stageHeight - 551.45) * .5;*/
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnterFrame,false, 0, true);
function onEnterFrame(ev:Event):void {
var requesterb:URLRequest=new URLRequest("carouselLoader.swf");
loader = null;
loader = new Loader();
loader.name ="carousel1"
//adds gallery.swf to stage at begining of movie
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioError);
function ioError(event:IOErrorEvent):void {
trace(event);
try {
loader.load(requesterb);
} catch (error:SecurityError) {
trace(error);
addChild(loader);
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loader.y = (stage.stageHeight - 500) * .5;
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MovieClip(root).nav.about.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, Down3, false, 0, true);
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loader = new Loader();
loader.name ="carousel"
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trace(event);
try {
loader.load(requester);
} catch (error:SecurityError) {
trace(error);
addChild(loader);
loader.x = (stage.stageWidth - 739) * .5;
loader.y = (stage.stageHeight - 500) * .5;
removeChild( getChildByName("about") );
removeChild( getChildByName("carousel1") );
// remove eventlistner and prevents duplication of gallery.swf
MovieClip(root).nav.portfolio.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, Down);
//INFORMATION BUTTON
//adds eventlistner so that info.swf can be loaded
MovieClip(root).nav.info.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, Down1, false, 0, true);
function Down1(event:MouseEvent):void {
//this re-adds the EventListener for portfolio so that end user can view again if they wish.
MovieClip(root).nav.portfolio.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, Down, false, 0, true);
MovieClip(root).nav.about.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, Down3, false, 0, true);
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loader2 = null;
loader2 = new Loader();
loader2.name ="contact"
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trace(event);
try {
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Andrei1,
Thank you for the helpful advice. I made the changes as you suggested but I am receiving a #1009 error message even though my site is working the way I wan it to work. I would still like to fix the errors so that my site runs and error free. This is the error I am receiving:
"TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference."
I'm sure this is not the best method to unload loaders and I am guessing this is why I am receiving the following error message.
     loader.unload();
     loader2.unload();
     loader3.unload();
I also tried creating a function to unload the loader but received the same error message and my portfolio swf was not showing at all.
     function killLoad():void{
     try { loader.close(); loader2.close; loader3.close;} catch (e:*) {}
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I have a question regarding suggestion you made to set Mouse Event to "null". What does this do setting the MouseEvent do exactly? Also, since I've set the MouseEvent to null do I also have to set the loader to null? e.g.
---- Here is my updated code ----
// variable for external loaders
var loader:Loader;
var loader1:Loader;
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var loader3:Loader;
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     trace(event);
     try {
     loader3.load(requester);
}      catch (error:SecurityError) {
     trace(error);
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Work/Nimble Press /Grant Wrangler/Website/GW
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transparency.
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the events take a lot of time to reach the swf file when the user
clicks inside the transparent window.
It's natural that the app runs slower inside a transparent
window (the framerate drops) but I wasn't expecting the clicks to
suffer from such delay (it takes sometimes 2-5sec).
The app is very CPU intensive and the transparencies make it
worse. Something inside the AIR framework is not dispatching the
events properly.
I say this because I tried using the virtualMouse class from
senocular together with a socket to simulate the mouse clicks and
that did the trick.
In conclusion:
Something in the AIR framework for windows XP is messing up
the dispatch of the Mouse events when the app is under heavy cpu
usage inside a chromeless window. I click on the window and it
takes 1-2sec to receive the click event.
However when I dispatch the MouseEvent.CLICK myself using
the virtual mouse class the application immediately receives the
event.
I know this is a strange bug and not many people will have
this problem, but I would like to know from someone with knowledge
of the runtime why this could be happening.
Thank you
Tiago Bilou

Hello everyone,
I'm currently working on an standard as3 (1024x768) app that
is running inside a chromeless Air window to take advantage of the
transparency.
All my tests where done using windows XP professional and AIR
1.0 (the same problem existed in beta3).
The issue I'm having is related with Mouse Events. Somehow
the events take a lot of time to reach the swf file when the user
clicks inside the transparent window.
It's natural that the app runs slower inside a transparent
window (the framerate drops) but I wasn't expecting the clicks to
suffer from such delay (it takes sometimes 2-5sec).
The app is very CPU intensive and the transparencies make it
worse. Something inside the AIR framework is not dispatching the
events properly.
I say this because I tried using the virtualMouse class from
senocular together with a socket to simulate the mouse clicks and
that did the trick.
In conclusion:
Something in the AIR framework for windows XP is messing up
the dispatch of the Mouse events when the app is under heavy cpu
usage inside a chromeless window. I click on the window and it
takes 1-2sec to receive the click event.
However when I dispatch the MouseEvent.CLICK myself using
the virtual mouse class the application immediately receives the
event.
I know this is a strange bug and not many people will have
this problem, but I would like to know from someone with knowledge
of the runtime why this could be happening.
Thank you
Tiago Bilou

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http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=passingarguments_3.html
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=wrapper_01.html
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