Flex MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN & listeners detect hold down mouse

[kronus]

Hi everyone,

Yes, I need to use you guys as a sounding board once more :-)

I have a button that has two listeners one for mouse up and the other for mouse down and they point to the same function.

$btnRewind.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onBtnBack);
$btnRewind.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,onBtnBack);
 

I want the end user to keep holding down their mouse to rewind and when they release the mouse, then I want the while loop to break.

As you can see by the code below, I've been trying a ton of stuff and I've commented out all the stuff that I'm not currently using

    private function onBtnBack(event:MouseEvent) : void
    {
        myCurrentPlayHead = Number($video.time);
        //trace("$video.timecode "+$video.timecode);
        //trace("$video.time "+$video.time);
        //trace("event "+event);
        //trace("myCurrentPlayHead "+myCurrentPlayHead);
        //myConvertTime = String($video.timecode);
        //myConvertTimeArray = myConvertTime.split(/:/);
        //myCounterSec = Number(myConvertTimeArray[2]);
        //myCounterFrames = Number(myConvertTimeArray[3]);
        //myActualSeconds = myCounterSec * $video.fps;
        //myActualFrames = myActualSeconds + myCounterFrames;
        //trace("myActualFrames "+myActualFrames);
        //myEndTime = Number($video.stream_end_time);
        //trace("myEndTime "+myEndTime);
 
 
        while(myCurrentPlayHead>0 && event.type == "mouseDown")
        {
            if(event.type == "mouseUp")
            {
                break;
            }
            else
            {
                myCurrentPlayHead = myCurrentPlayHead - 0.05;
                trace("myCurrentPlayHead rwnd "+myCurrentPlayHead);
                my_timedProcess = setTimeout(my_rewindFunction,1000/$video.fps);                
            }
        }
 
    }
 
    public function my_rewindFunction():void
    {
        if(myCurrentPlayHead > 0)
        {
            $video.pause();
            $video.seek(myCurrentPlayHead);                
        }
    }
 

Within the while loop, I have an if statement that basically checks for a mouseUp event, but it's like the function has already passed the event.type == "mouseDown" to the while loop, which means that the event.type == "mouseUp" will not arrive until the while loop has completed it's infinite loop.

BTW, speaking of infinite loops, I am tracing the var myCurrentPlayHead and it always goes below 0 into negative numbers, but the while loop still doesn't break.

Please help, I'm at a loss -- this should work.

Thanx n advance