Flash Button Not Clicking When Attached (AS3)

[grande]

Alright, let me try to explain my situation....

I have a class (AppCore) that extends MovieClip.
I have a MovieClip called StageContents.
I have a class (DefaultCaption) with a button on it, that extends MovieClip.

In AppCore, I essentially do this:

var StageContents:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
var dc:DefaultCaption = new DefaultCaption();
dc.setCaption("Text");
StageContents.addChild(dc);

This doesn't work. I see the button, but it's not clickable, and the mouse-over doesn't work.

If I change it to this:

var dc:DefaultCaption = new DefaultCaption();
dc.setCaption("Text");
addChild(dc);

it works fine.

I'd really rather have the children go on StageContents (for reasons I'd rather not go into).

Does anyone have any idea why this would be happening?

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[kennethkawamoto]

addChild(StageContents);

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[grande]

Hi kennethkawamoto,

Thanks for the reply but I'm doing that already. Just forgot to put it in my code. Sorry.

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[kennethkawamoto]

Then your StageContents Class is somewhat wrong.

Kenneth Kawamoto

http://www.materiaprima.co.uk

 

[grande]

Okay, after your last post, I tried removing, clearing then adding StageContents, instead of just clearing it. Here's what I found.

I have a small menu on the left side that slides out. When it is hidden, dc is visible, but when the menu pops out, you can no longer see dc.

If I remove then add StageContetns, StageContents is added above the menu. Then dc works fine.

So I guess my question is... How can I click something that's underneath something else?

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[grande]

Yar-tee-tar! I figured it out!

I had a mask on the entire stage to fake fading. When alpha got to 0, I forgot to set mc_mask.visible = false. I put that it, and it worked!

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