attaching movieclip to mouse

[Ritika_S]

Hi guys

This is what my original post was:
http://www.actionscripts.org/forums/....php3?t=140294

Now that i have achieved in randomly rotating my menu items, i have to try and attach the current menu item on which my mouse rests to the mouse. This has a defined area, if the mouse moves out of that area the menu item goes back and to its original position. Also when the mouse is over the particular item the current item should have the highest depth on the stage.

here's my code for rotating the menu items:

var numPoints:Number = 4;
var fl:Number = 300;
var vpX:Number = Stage.width/2;
var vpY:Number = Stage.height/2;
dx = 10;
dy = 10;
init();
function init() {
//attaching the movieclips
var point3:MovieClip = attachMovie("point3", "point3", this.getNextHighestDepth());
point3.x = Math.random()*200-100;
point3.y = Math.random()*200-100;
point3.z = Math.random()*200-100;
var point1:MovieClip = attachMovie("point1", "point1", this.getNextHighestDepth());
point1.x = Math.random()*200-100;
point1.y = Math.random()*200-100;
point1.z = Math.random()*200-100;
var point2:MovieClip = attachMovie("point2", "point2", this.getNextHighestDepth());
point2.x = Math.random()*200-100;
point2.y = Math.random()*200-100;
point2.z = Math.random()*200-100;

}
//rotation of the movieclips
function onEnterFrame():Void {
var angleY:Number = (_xmouse-vpX)*.001;
var cosY:Number = Math.cos(angleY);
var sinY:Number = Math.sin(angleY);
var angleX:Number = (_ymouse-vpY)*.001;
var cosX:Number = Math.cos(angleX);
var sinX:Number = Math.sin(angleX);
for (var i:Number = 1; i<numPoints; i++) {
var point:MovieClip = this["point"+i];
var x1:Number = point.x*cosY-point.z*sinY;
var z1:Number = point.z*cosY+point.x*sinY;
var y1:Number = point.y*cosX-z1*sinX;
var z2:Number = z1*cosX+point.y*sinX;
point.x = x1;
point.y = y1;
point.z = z2;

if (point.z<=-fl) {
point._visible = false;
} else {
point._visible = true;
var scale:Number = fl/(fl+point.z);
point._xscale = point._yscale=scale*100;
point._x = vpX+point.x*scale;
point._y = vpY+point.y*scale;
point.swapDepths(-point.z);
}
}
}

how should i go about it?
Thanks for your help guys.

[Ritika_S]

hey guys..
went through a few tutorials about attaching a movieclip to mouse but somehow that doesn't seem to work on my file...
if i keep the navigation static it works but not on the rotating one...

what should i do.. anyone please...

[Ritika_S]

ok fine i tried putting this code...kinda works ...not exactly what i wanted but somewhat. but now the problem is that the navigation doesn't go back to its rotating position once i have rolled out of them..
Thats because ofcourse i deleted the onEnterFrame but otherwise the script wasn't working.. now how do i make them go back to original rotating state?

function over() {
    speed = 10;
    scale = 20;
    this._xscale += scale;
    this._yscale += scale;
    delete _root.onEnterFrame;
    this.onEnterFrame = function() {
        this._x += (_root._xmouse-this.lastX)/speed;
        this._y += (_root._ymouse-this.lastY)/speed;
        this.lastX = this._x;
        this.lastY = this._y;
        dx1 = this._x+100;
        dy1 = this._y+100;
        dx2 = this._x-100;
        dy2 = this._y-100;
        if (_xmouse>dx1 || _ymouse>dy1 || _xmouse<dx2 || _ymouse<dy2) {
            delete this.onEnterFrame;
            this._xscale -= scale;
            this._yscale -= scale;
        }
    };
    
}

this is just the script for the over state of the menu items..

[Ritika_S]

okay fine
i managed to make the movieclips rotate again.
I did this by distributing the script through a number of frames...
but the revert back to rotation is very jerky...

since on rollout i ask make the movie play from frme1 again where the original points are being attached.. so they are getting attached all over again at random positions...which is what i s'pose is causing the jerk...how do i store the original posion and start rotating it from there?

[Ritika_S]

man...
i m really gone crazy...doing this

i tried calling a function which stores all the values of current positions of the points...no use

can anyone please have a look and tell me what should be the approach...

[Ritika_S]

nobody....

plz someone help.....