# Competing event listeners

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/competing-event-listeners/300592
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 24, 2009, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/competing-event-listeners/300592 "2009-11-24T09:16:13Z")
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### Author: ![jac4b](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@jac4b](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jac4b)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2009, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/competing-event-listeners/300592/1 "2009-11-24T09:16:13Z")

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I have a continuous mouse trail effect which uses  
stage.addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE\_MOVE

but then I can only sporatically talk to the listener on  
btnEnter.addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE\_DOWN

clearly the stage listener is overwhelming the button listener – can I give the button priority?

Thanks!!!