Webmaster Forum / Flash / Flash Actionscript / October 2008

Hi All,

Relatively new to Flash, looking to understand some details about button
events.

Here is the relevant code:

I have a horizontally scrolling MC (thumbnail_mc) containing all my thumbnails
for a gallery. I've also got 2 buttons to move the clip, right_btn and left_btn.

To stop the thumbnail clip from moving beyond the limits of the scroller, I've
added two boundary MC's, hit_right and hit_left, to use for hitTest.

Presently this code works fine, except that I have to click the button to move
each distance of ten pixels, rather than being able to hold down the button and
continue scrolling...is there a way to perform this? Is there a method that
returns a buttons state, so that I can determine if the button is still down,
rather than using onPress?

Any help is appreciated, let me know if I've been unclear!

Thanks

function thumbNailScroller() {
    scroll_speed = 10;
    right_btn.onPress = function() {
        if (thumbnail_mc.hitTest(hit_right)){
            thumbnail_mc._x -= scroll_speed;
        }
    }
    left_btn.onPress = function(){
        if (thumbnail_mc.hitTest(hit_left)){
            thumbnail_mc._x += scroll_speed;
        }
    }
}