Mouse Coordinates -- off .swf

[eljefeloco101 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi -
I'm trying to display mouse coordinates as a design element for my portfolio site.

That part is easy enough, but I want to keep tracking the coordinates even if the cursor moves off the .swf -- is this possible? All tutorials I've seen thus far only track the mouse coordinates when it's over the .swf.

thanks

[Jack. webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

afaik only possible with IE6,
[url]http://www.jackleaman.co.uk/examples/outofflash.html[/url]

regards
Jack..

[PierreAlain]

You could make a bckground far larger than the flash window, it should work.

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Pierre Alain

[email]pie@lifnet.com[/email]

[eljefeloco101 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I think this answers my question -- Bottom line, there is no easy way to get mouse coordinates off the flash movie... I think I'll go with option B which is to make my movie size larger so that it reads the coordinates even though it appears to be off the movies.

thanks for your help,

jeff