# Event handling problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/event-handling-problem/244911>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 23, 2007, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/event-handling-problem/244911 "2007-11-23T12:32:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![encantado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bb73d2/32.png) [@encantado](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/encantado)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2007, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/event-handling-problem/244911/1 "2007-11-23T12:32:36Z")

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Hey guys & girls,

As an event handling noob i’ve come up to the following problem:  
The code below generates a menu but i fail to get any response out of the event handling.  
Everything works just fine except that one event thing :skull:

```auto

var root:MovieClip = this;
var arrButtons:Array = new Array();
var arrNavi:Array = ["Home", "Products", "About", "Contact"];

var eventListener:Object = new Object();
eventListener.onMouseOver = function(evt:Object) {
    trace("OVER "+evt.name);
};

function makeMenu() {

    var target_mc = root.createEmptyMovieClip("target_mc", root.getNextHighestDepth());
    var i:Number = 0;

    while (i<arrNavi.length) {
        item_mc = target_mc.createEmptyMovieClip(arrNavi*+"_mc", target_mc.getNextHighestDepth());
        text_txt = item_mc.createTextField("text_txt", item_mc.getNextHighestDepth(), 0, i*22, 100, 20);
        text_txt.multiline = true;
        text_txt.border = true;
        text_txt.wordWrap = true;
        text_txt.text = arrNavi*;

        arrButtons.push({pth:item_mc, link:arrNavi*});

        i += 1;
    }
    for (j=0; j<arrButtons.length; j++) {
        var btn_mc:MovieClip = MovieClip(arrButtons[j].pth);
        btn_mc.link = arrButtons[j].link;

        btn_mc.useHandCursor = true;
        btn_mc.buttonMode = true;
        btn_mc.mouseChildren = false;

        btn_mc.addEventListener("onMouseOver",eventListener);
    }

}

makeMenu();

```

Could anybody please help me with this frustrating issue?  
thanks!