i have some movie clips on the stage and the background of these movie clips are, of course, the stage. now, i need to detect a click on any area of the background(the stage) to do something to the movieclips above it.
What I did is, I laid a movieclip which has the same size as the stage, above the Stage and below the other movieclips. I then set this movieclip to visible = false. Next, I thought I could use onMouseDown to get the clicks but unfortunately, it isn’t working because onMouseDown detects the click on anywhere I click.
I am not using onPress because I don’t want to have the hand cursor appearing on the entire flash movie.
How can I do to detect mouse clicks within a movie clip, without using the onPress, which comes with the hand cursor?
thanks! 
