OT: Calling Flash guys - Child elements not receiving mouse events if parent MovieClip has

Hi,
You could try
mc_menu.button1.onRelease = function () {
    etc....;
}

At 07:38 a.m. 16/09/2006, you wrote:
>Hi List
>
>Sorry this is a Flash 8 Pro question not a Director
question but I'm 
>in a rush and I'm not having any luck with Flash forums
so far...
>
>I'm sure this is a simple problem to fix but I'm
having problems 
>with buttons nested inside MovieClips not receiving
mouse events if 
>that MovieClip has a onRollOver function.
>
>I have a MovieClip which contains 3 button symbols used
as a menu 
>bar. After a little animation of the MovieClip opening
up the 
>buttons will appear. The animation is a simple shape
tween on a 
>layer underneath the button layers.
>
>The MovieClip's animation is triggered by a function
assigned on the 
>root timeline:
>
>mc_menu.onRollOver = function () {
>    this.gotoAndPlay("open");
>}
>
>So, when the mouse enters the MovieClip's bounding box
the animation 
>is triggered however the buttons will no longer receive
any mouse 
>events (no clicks, no rollovers, nothing). It's almost
as if the 
>MovieClip is grabbing the mouse event for itself and not
passing it 
>down to its child elements.
>
>Does Flash 8 have the equivalent of Lingo's
"pass" command to force 
>these events down into child elements? Am I going about
this the 
>wrong way? I have tried having an invisible trigger for
this 
>underneath the buttons, but as soon as a RollOver event
is fired on 
>any of the buttons, it causes a RollOut event to fire on
the trigger 
>causing the menu to close.
>
>Suffice it to say I'm not having much luck.
>
>Sorry again for the OT post.
>
>TIA
>Ross
>
>
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