Keeping the mouse on screen in flash

[Drcooper]

Anyone know how to keep the mouse from going off the game board in flash adobe games? I want to keep the pointer from going outside the game area onto the surrounding webpage ...

Thanks

[LB]

Why on earth would you want to do that? I think that as a safety feature Adobe Flash doesn't allow you to change the mouse's position. This way ads can't just make you click on them!

[Eliyahu]

The only reason I could see doing that is if your game is mouse controlled, and you dont want the player cheating.

But then....

XMouse < 0
OR
XMouse > 640
OR
YMouse < 0
OR
YMouse > 480

Set active position to (x,y) [wherever you want the default position to be]


This is what I did in Color Collector to make sure the mouse controlled object stayed on the screen at all times.

[LB]

In Eliyahu's Code you can replace 640 and 480 with Frame Width and Frame Height (just type those words in exactly or get them from the frame object)

[Eliyahu]

True. I wasn't really considering frame changes, but you should get the idea Default 640x480 FTW!!!!

[LB]

The thing is, Eliyahu, some of my games have resizing frame areas.