# Forcing a button to its rollover state

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/forcing-a-button-to-its-rollover-state/29945>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 2, 2003, 9:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/forcing-a-button-to-its-rollover-state/29945 "2003-09-02T09:54:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![m\_andrews808](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@m\_andrews808](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/m_andrews808)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2003, 9:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/forcing-a-button-to-its-rollover-state/29945/1 "2003-09-02T09:54:09Z")

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Can anyone tell me if I can force a button to show its rollover state without putting a mouse over it?

My situation is this: I’m making an animation demoing how to use an interface, I’ve got a mouse pointer clip that moves over some buttons to show they are interactive, and I need the buttons to show their roll over state when the clip moves over them.

I could draw the rollover states into the animation but there are multiple set of buttons loaded dynamically depending on which page the movie is viewed from so really what I want is one animation to demo all the different button layers rather than having to create an animation for each.

I’m making this in Flash 5 but if its possible to do in MX and not 5 I’d like to know as it might be enough to persuade my bosses to go with MX.

Thanks in advance :love: