Flash: Correctly handling click-and-drag outside the browser?

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Published on 2010-05-31T14:21:18Z Indexed on 2010/05/31 14:23 UTC
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What's the correct way to detect, from Flash, when someone has started a drag within the browser (eg, a MOUSE_DOWN event), dragged the mouse outside the browser window, released the button, then moved the mouse back over the browser?

For example (assuming StackOverflow was a Flash application):

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I've tried the "obvious" thing, checking event.buttonDown in the MOUSE_MOVE handler, but even though the mouse button is up, event.buttonDown is true in step 2 (above).

So, is there any other way to check the "real" status of the mouse button? Or any other way to handle this situation?

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