Don’t forget to register your object:

SimpleMouseEventHandler.register(test_movie_mc);

And be sure to ‘type’ the event argument properly (SimpleMouseEvent vs. MouseEvent) in your test function to avoid errors:

function test_release_outside(event:SimpleMouseEvent):void
{
trace(“test_release_outside”);
}

For some reason I can’t get it to work and it seems simple enough.

import SimpleMouseEvents.*;

test_movie_mc.buttonMode = true;
test_movie_mc.useHandCursor = true;

test_movie_mc.addEventListener(SimpleMouseEvent.RELEASE_OUTSIDE, test_release_outside);
//test_movie_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, test_release_outside);

function test_release_outside(event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace(“test_release_outside”);
}

Am I missing something???

SimpleMouseEventHandler.unregister(this);
this.removeEventListener(SimpleMouseEvent.RELEASE_OUTSIDE, dropMeOutside);
parent.removeChild(this);

but still get this:

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at de.popforge.events::SimpleMouseEventHandler/onTargetMouseUp()

Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at BodyPart/dropMeOutside()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at de.popforge.events::SimpleMouseEventHandler/dispatch()
at de.popforge.events::SimpleMouseEventHandler/onStageMouseUp()

Tried this but no dice:

SimpleMouseEventHandler.unregister(this);
parent.removeChild(this);

One question, i’m having the same problem with components as Daniel posted on December 19th.

You can take a look at the problem in

http://www.malldelsol.mash.com.ec

If you click on ‘eventos’ the buttons for scrolling use the events class and work.

But…if you click on ‘locales comerciales’ before entering ‘eventos’ then the buttons fail to get the RELEASE event.

I isolated the problem on the presence of flash components ‘Combo’ and/or ‘List’. Even tough i exit ‘locales comerciales’ it seems that the problem still exists.

Any comment on this would be very appreciated.

Thanks for all the support.

when using cs3 components the RELEASE Event seems to fail. I could nail it down to a focus problem. AFAIK the components use their own focus-management, which seems to interfere the ‘target.stage.focus’ property.

if( target.stage.focus == target )
// is never fired when using components
dispatch(SimpleMouseEvent.RELEASE);

without this condition the event is fired normally…but that can’t be the solution ;)