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by: asaivanPosted on 2009-09-02 at 20:44:24ID: 25247709
I would just make certain elements in your MovieClip "unclickable", that is you can't have two event listeners on one movieclip which pertain to mouse events. Flash will do one thing or another. If you have images, or something else which you could designate as a "clickable" area, then do that, but if you put a blanket "click area" over your whole movieclip, you will get results like you are getting now. You may also want to try to load a "tooltip" so that when you roll over the information in the Abstract, a tooltip comes up with the info, that way you don't have to worry about scrolling. Here's a simple one, http://hairydoodle.blogspo t.com/2009 /04/as3-to oltip.html