Comments on: Preventing the right mouse cheat in your Flash games

By: CTC

CTC — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:20:42 +0000

Josh is right, you shouldn’t check the mouse position.
Instead update xpos/ypos variables from the mouse position on mouse movements and check against those.
Once you right click the variables don’t get updated and you collide.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:34:47 +0000

I would check the location of the movieclip object instead of the mouse x/y position for collision. Then, the right-click cheat shown in that video would actually make you lose.

By: AJ Simon

AJ Simon — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:22:26 +0000

the AS3 solution posted above does not work… i have a client the is going above and beyond requesting to have this for there game. first we never promised it, because if people want to cheat at a game… well then what is the point. people have cheated since the contra game and everyone i am sure remembers that cheat code to get 30 xtra men.

regardless, i would love to see an AS3 solution for this i have search high and low and found nothing that will meet the need.

-aj

By: ARK

ARK — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:20:48 +0000

There is a way to do this using ActionScript 3.0:

stage.addEventListener(Event.MOUSE_LEAVE, func);
function func (event:Event):void
{
//the code inside this function will be triggered when the mouse leaved the stage or when the contextual menu (right-click) is triggered
}

By: Javier LÃ¡zaro

Javier LÃ¡zaro — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:22:15 +0000

Wonderful!
Just needed this to fix a cheat on my latest game!

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:51:17 +0000

Does anyone know how to do this in AS3?

By: Marcin

Marcin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:40:33 +0000

Well, you could simply put in some code that will say “You’re cheating!” and restart the game if you press the left mouse button. Simply, if you right-click you have to left click to switch off the menu and continue playing…

By: lewis

lewis — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:34:50 +0000

you can change what the right click says and take the clicker toa certain slide.
Just put:

function go () {
gotoAndStop(19);
}

var myMenu:ContextMenu = new ContextMenu();
myMenu.hideBuiltInItems();

var cheat1:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(“Click here for money”, go);
var cheat2:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(“Cheat at the lottery!”, go);
var cheat3:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(“Free pie”, go);
var cheat4:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(“Click here to cheat”, go);
var cheat5:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(“Cheating is for NOOBS!”, go);
var cheat6:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(“Cheating is for gays”, go);
var cheat7:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(“Please don’t cheat”, go);
var cheat8:ContextMenuItem = new ContextMenuItem(“CHEAT!!!”, go);

myMenu.customItems.push(cheat1, cheat2, cheat3, cheat4, cheat5, cheat6, cheat7, cheat8);

_root.menu = myMenu;
you can change what it says by changing the bit where it says stuff like “CHEAT!!!”
it is very usefull.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:31:48 +0000

Solution: Don’t do mouse avoider games. They suck.

By: Kesh

Kesh — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:51:52 +0000

well, the key(2) is less effective because that only detects if the right click button was pressed. What if someone had a tablet pc and there are no right click buttons? All they have to do is hold down the stylus until it right clicks… how can u detect that with key(2)? I havent tested it, but still Emanuele’s way is much more effective.