Button acting as a scroll with mouse event in AS3?

Question

I'm new here, just found these forums on Google.

First of all, I want to appologise if there is some topics like this, but I searched whole forums and didn't find any that finishes my problem.

Now the important one. As I stated in topic title, I need an AS3 code that's doing the thing. This is what I want to accomplish. I have a MC(image) in the center of my screen, and have two buttons, one on right and one on left side of that MC. I want to scroll (image is like a menu) that MC left or right on mouse events, down or over. So, I just want to change MCs X value while holding mouse button on buttons or just hovering over them. I have managed to do that, but it's only moving by one value I have entered after a mouse event. Here's a piece of code I did.

buttonL1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, buttonL1Pressed);


function buttonL1Pressed(event:MouseEvent):void{

var temp:int = 0;
var temp1:int = 0;
temp = paleta1_mc.x;
temp1 = temp - 5;
paleta1_mc.x = temp1;
trace(temp1);


}

I hope you understood me, and have a clue how to help me with this.

Thank you very much in advance!

Cheers, Ivan

Answer 1

Try this:

var isScrolling = false;

buttonL1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, function(e){isScrolling =true});
buttonL1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, function(e){isScrolling =false});
this.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,checkAction)

function checkAction(event:Event):void{

  if (isScrolling)
  {
     paleta1_mc.x -=5;
  }

}