User Guide

1484 Window component
Window.mouseDownOutside
Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0.79.0).
Edition
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
Usage 1:
var listenerObject:Object = new Object();
listenerObject.mouseDownOutside = function(eventObject:Object) {
// ...
};
windowInstance.addEventListener("mouseDownOutside", listenerObject);
Usage 2:
on (mouseDownOutside) {
// ...
}
Description
Event; broadcast to all registered listeners when the mouse is clicked (released) outside the
modal window. This event is rarely used, but you can use it to dismiss a window if the user
tries to interact with something outside it.
The first usage example uses a dispatcher/listener event model. A component instance
(
windowInstance) dispatches an event (in this case, mouseDownOutside) and the event is
handled by a function, also called a handler, on a listener object (
listenerObject) that you
create. You define a method with the same name as the event on the listener object; the
method is called when the event is triggered. When the event is triggered, it automatically
passes an event object (
eventObject) to the listener object method. The event object has
properties that contain information about the event. You can use these properties to write
code that handles the event. Finally, you call the
EventDispatcher.addEventListener()
method on the component instance that broadcasts the event to register the listener with the
instance. When the instance dispatches the event, the listener is called.
For more information, see “EventDispatcher class” on page 499.