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flashactionscript-3mousedetectionclassification

Detecting a sequence of mouse movements

In ActionScript 3, I need to detect a sequence of movements made by the mouse when the button is down. I've read this question, and it seems a bit overkill. I only need to detect the 8 basic directions (up/down/left/right/diagonals), so that I can detect a "Z".

Are you aware of any free/open-source solutions? How would you do that otherwise? I've already implemented a few classification algorithms, but I'm looking for something really basic here.

Solution

  • Here is a tutorial on how to do exactly what you're looking for:

    http://www.emanueleferonato.com/2010/07/05/detecting-mouse-gestures-in-flash-with-as3/

    Hope that helps. :)