[Papervision3D] Detect Mouse Events in a viewport

[Sandeep Menon]

Oh ok.
Thanks Steve.

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Steve D <kruass at gmail.com> wrote:

> A Flash displayobject wont detect mouse events on any part of it that is
> 100% transparent.  The typical way to get around this is to put the mouse
> event on the scene, and then manually figure out if the mouse event should
> be affecting the transparent displayobject.
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Sandeep Menon <sandeepmenon24 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> so, if i have a viewport that's embedded in a UIComponent of the same
>> size, being transparent, I'll need to add the listener to the scene object
>> instead?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Steve D <kruass at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If the UIComponent or Canvas have solid backgrounds, and they will detect
>>> a hittest.  You can put your event listener on them.  If they are
>>> transparent (as the viewport is), then you'll need the listener on the
>>> scene, and do bounds checking in the event handler method.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Sandeep Menon <sandeepmenon24 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've got the following setup in a papervision application I'm working
>>>> on.
>>>>
>>>>    - A Viewport3D object, that's added as a child of a
>>>>    - UIComponent, that in turn is added as a child to a
>>>>    - A custom object, that's derived from a Canvas class
>>>>
>>>> What i want to do is detect any mouse events that happen within the
>>>> viewport, not just those that occur over any scene objects.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How would I go about handling this, by adding the listener to the
>>>> viewport itself or even the UIcomponent object, rather than dealing with it
>>>> at the Canvas-derived object?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> sm
>>>>
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