Re: [flasher] Preventing mouse clicks from activating buttons in submerged MCs

[Karin Christensen]

Either do not put buttons in the movie clips or when you have a button

action in a movie clip that I assume is targeting something else (the

other movie clip? the main time line?) have it target itself to go to

another frame where you give the button a graphic behavior.  Or

better, instead of covering up one movie clip with another ,target the

one you don't want to show to go to a blank "park" frame and stop.

This way only one movie clip at a time is visible.


Karin Christensen

Scientific, Medical and Veterinary Illustration

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> I thought I knew the simple answer to this but....

>

> I have two overlapping movieclips and both contain buttons and

clickable

> scrolling lists.  Each of these movieclips are separate flash

objects loaded

> in as needed.

>

> The buttons on the movie clip below the topmost movie clip are still

active

> even though they are obscured by the movie clip above it.  They

therefore

> respond to rollovers and mouseclicks even though they are below the

current

> clip.

>

> So the question is, how do you prevent mouse events from "seeping"

through a

> movieclip to the one below it?  I know you could probably write

additional

> lines into every mouseup to check which level it is on and see if

it's the

> topmost level but is there an easier way?  I could also put a

mouseup script

> in the background graphic but then the cursor would change to a

finger while

> over the entire clip.

>

> - Roland Combes

> eHealth Latin America