# Flash as3 dispatchEvent

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-as3-dispatchevent/307311>\
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**Created:** [April 1, 2010, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-as3-dispatchevent/307311 "2010-04-01T11:48:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![artsound](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@artsound](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/artsound)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-as3-dispatchevent/307311/1 "2010-04-01T11:48:50Z")

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I am successfully dispatching a mouse event to a button–however the visual aspect of the event is not being seen–inother words if I dispatch CLICK I get a click but do not see the buton change as if I had clicked the button with the mouse–I am not really accessing the “up” “over” “down” frames of the button  
what I want is to mimic MOUSE\_OVER with a timed event not a mouse