# Disable specific nested child from event?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disable-specific-nested-child-from-event/316725>\
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**Created:** [December 1, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disable-specific-nested-child-from-event/316725 "2010-12-01T04:50:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![patrickjv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@patrickjv](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/patrickjv)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/disable-specific-nested-child-from-event/316725/1 "2010-12-01T04:50:23Z")

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I have a nested display object structure like as follows

```auto
 
preloader
container
 L/R
  subL/subR
   txtLmasked/txtRmasked
    recL/recR
    txtL/txtR
     fontL/fontR
      areaL/areaR
    mskL/mskR
   gradient_cornerL/gradient_cornerR

```

“container” has MOUSE\_OVER event. Now I need ANY children EXCEPT for “gradient\_cornerL / gradient\_cornerR” to trigger that. Unfortunately ALL childrent trigger the action and can’t seem to turn off that single one

I’ve tried playing around mouseEnabled / mouseChildren, also tried ROLL\_OVER … tried different things, but no luck

I know I can probably find a workaround by moving the MOUSE\_OVER to the needed children, but would be more practical if I can exclude just those 2 children

Any suggestions?  
t.i.a.  
P

ps: areaL/areaR have their own MOUSE\_DOWN actions so when turning off parent/grandparent ‘enabled’ it also kills those action.