Away3D/Stage3D highjacks focus and any movie clip added on display list is not triggering mouse events.

What is the best way to handle this situation? Please suggest.

It’s usually the inverse situation as Stage3D is allways behind the displaylist.
Can you send us a (simple clean) class that reproduce this?

This has already been reported as a bug, but we can’t seem to reproduce it. The bug is reported here: https://github.com/away3d/away3d-core-fp11/issues/378

Fabrice Closier - 08 August 2012 01:06 PM

It’s usually the inverse situation as Stage3D is allways behind the displaylist.
Can you send us a (simple clean) class that reproduce this?

I have attached a sample with published swfs. you can see the intended behavior in ‘test_without_away.swf’ which i published after commenting the function init() call in ‘test.as’

I think the reported bug is different.

Thanks for your help Fabrice Closier.

Hey, thanks for posting your example. Made me realize what is going on…

Yeah, Stage3D is a has a different rendering mechanism than the regular flash display tree, and is always under it, BUT, View3D still extends Sprite and contains something called “hitField”. This is basically an invisible graphic that is used to capture input on the view. So after all, the view is not just Stage3D, its is both things.

So? In you example, your child is added BEFORE the 3D view, so the view and this invisible graphics it has is covering your sprite and hence stealing all mouse events from it. Try initializing the view and THEN adding your interactive sprite on top of it. I can guarantee it will capture mouse events then.

hth

Thats working. Thanks. However I am wondering why the view3d is getting events when the top layer sprite also gets event. That is hover controller is working even when we are dragging on the 2d sprite.

Great help. Actually I didn’t checked it since the sprite appears over the stage3D layer.

When you handle the event on your 2D (display list) sprite, prevent it from bubbling to make sure it doesn’t reach the view or stage, and that might help. To do that, invoke the Event.stopImmediatePropagation() method on the event object in your handler.

That works. Thanks.Only problem is that buttonMode is not working in browser. It is a minor issue, not a problem. Yeah it works in stand alone player.