# Bitmaps & Event Listeners?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bitmaps-event-listeners/283320>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 4, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bitmaps-event-listeners/283320 "2009-03-04T22:06:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![michdd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@michdd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/michdd)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bitmaps-event-listeners/283320/1 "2009-03-04T22:06:54Z")

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Can you put event listeners on bitmaps? Because the current project that I’m working on requires a lot of separate objects which are currently MovieClips, and because there can be several hundred, it causes the app to lag.