Detect Mouse leave stage while dragging in Actionscript 3

Question

Event.MOUSE_LEAVE is great in Actionscript 3, but it doesn\'t seem to fire if the user is holding their left (or right for that matter) mouse button down.

Is there a

Answer 1

Is there a way to detect if the mouse leaves the Flash movie while the mouse is held down?

Not that i know of

Or if it is released outside the flash movie?

Event.MOUSE_LEAVE does happen when you release outside.

more info here http://blog.zupko.info/?p=3 see JIMISAACS comment.