Writing a custom event for mouseenter in ActionScript 2.0

Question

Hi All,
I am trying to implemetn one functionality based on the mouseenter
Unlike the mouseover() event, the mouseenter() event only  triggers when the the mouse pointer enters the selected element. The mouseover()  event is triggered if a mouse pointer enters any child elements as well.
In jquery latest they added support for mouseenter , i want to do the same in Flash AS2.0
There are only RollOver,RollOut, mousedown, so i want to add mouseEnter event Just like Jquery which is done below
Checks if an event happened on an element within another element
// Used in jQuery.event.special.mouseenter and mouseleave handlers
var withinElement = function( event ) {
     // Check if mouse(over|out) are still within the same parent element
     var parent = event.relatedTarget;
     // Firefox sometimes assigns relatedTarget a XUL element
     // which we cannot access the parentNode property of
     try {
          // Traverse up the tree
          while ( parent && parent !== this ) {
               parent = parent.parentNode;
          if ( parent !== this ) {
               // set the correct event type
               event.type = event.data;
               // handle event if we actually just moused on to a non sub-element
               jQuery.event.handle.apply( this, arguments );
     // assuming we've left the element since we most likely mousedover a xul element
     } catch(e) { }
// In case of event delegation, we only need to rename the event.type,
// liveHandler will take care of the rest.
delegate = function( event ) {
     event.type = event.data;
     jQuery.event.handle.apply( this, arguments );
// Create mouseenter and mouseleave events
jQuery.each({
     mouseenter: "mouseover",
     mouseleave: "mouseout"
}, function( orig, fix ) {
     jQuery.event.special[ orig ] = {
          setup: function( data ) {
               jQuery.event.add( this, fix, data && data.selector ? delegate : withinElement, orig );
          teardown: function( data ) {
               jQuery.event.remove( this, fix, data && data.selector ? delegate : withinElement );
So please help me in implemeting the customevent mouseenter  I am using AS2.0
Regards
Ramakrishna
[email protected]

Answer 1

remove the stop() from frame 1.  and use tl.play() in the onRelease
and yes, you can use another loop (enterframe) to update the drag_mc position as the timeline plays.  that new code would look like:
var tl:MovieClip = this;
tl.onEnterFrame = playF;
paramF(tl,1,0,tl._totalframes,sb_mc._width-sb_mc.drag_mc._width);
paramF(sb_mc.drag_mc,0,1,sb_mc._width-sb_mc.drag_mc._width,tl._totalframes);
sb_mc.drag_mc.onPress = function(){
    this.startDrag(false,0,this._y,sb_mc._width-sb_mc.drag_mc._width,this._y);
    this.onEnterFrame = scrollTL;
    delete tl.onEnterFrame;
sb_mc.drag_mc.onRelease = sb_mc.drag_mc.onReleaseOutside = function(){
    this.stopDrag();
    delete this.onEnterFrame;
    tl.onEnterFrame = playF;
    tl.play();
function playF():Void{
    sb_mc.drag_mc._x = this._currentframe*this.m+this.b;
function scrollTL():Void{
    tl.gotoAndStop(Math.round(this._x*this.m+this.b));
function paramF(mc:MovieClip,x1:Number,y1:Number,x2:Number,y2:Number):Void{
    mc.m = (y1-y2)/(x1-x2);
    mc.b = y1-mc.m*x1;
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