# Getting error message trying to prototype mouseOver

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-error-message-trying-to-prototype-mouseover/189756>\
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**Created:** [June 6, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-error-message-trying-to-prototype-mouseover/189756 "2006-06-06T01:05:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![sith\_xp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@sith\_xp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sith_xp)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-error-message-trying-to-prototype-mouseover/189756/1 "2006-06-06T01:05:33Z")

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hello,

i’m stuck on a problem with prototyping mouseOver for MovieClip.

i’m trying to use mouseOver (so that i use onClipEvent(mouseMove) to display a larger image on top of 9 smaller images, then hide the larger image when user moves the mouse off the smaller image.

i can’t use the onClipEvent(mouseUp) and onClipEvent(mouseDown) because i’m using these for dragging the images around.

i need to solve this for my work, but i can’t get it to work.

the error message i get when i try to publish this is:

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=main, frame=3:Line 194: Syntax error.  
MovieClip.prototype.mouseOver() {

Total ActionScript Errors: 1 Reported Errors: 1

can anyone help please.