Flash Player Mouse Events on Touch Screen Devices

Simple video that shows which mouse events you can access when running Flash based content on devices with touch screen inputs.

Basically, you can get all mouse events (including hover events) except for middle mouse button, right mouse button and scroll wheel events.

This example is on an Apple iPod touch, created with the iPhone packager for Flash CS5.

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[daCorasla]

@Applest2oApples Ok, I partly agree but think about this. Each of the events has a different effect. IF a touchscreen is involved, then the user does not experience the full effects of the given object when tapping BUT may experience them if the does the full roll over/roll out(by dragging his thumb around the screen and onto / out of the object) and can even get the mouse up/mouse down effects if the object he's pressing is bigger than his finger.

[Applest2oApples]

@daCorasla I understand what happens "under the hood" - what I'm saying is that it's completely stupid to have all those events fire with a simple tap. In practice, you can't assign different functions to all those events because they all fire with a single action - a tap.

[daCorasla]

@Applest2oApples As @monopita already told you, you don't understand what happens under the hood.

[BinaryBunyip]

Ooo a video of someone touching a screen. :/

Give the source file. This AS3 stuff is really stupid.

[zmz2006]

@Applest2oApples

apparently you know nothing about programming.

[monopita]

@Applest2oApples

actually, I think that's the way it works by definition. A click (or tap) is a mose over/scroll over + mouse down + mouse up, in that order. Hope that helps. And don't call people stupid, it makes you look like one.

[Applest2oApples]

So let me get this straight...

A single tap is simultaneously a click, mouse over, and a roll over? Yeah, that'll work... *sarcasm*

You are an idiot.