# HELP: How to know what instance is under the mouse cursor?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-how-to-know-what-instance-is-under-the-mouse-cursor/283385>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 5, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-how-to-know-what-instance-is-under-the-mouse-cursor/283385 "2009-03-05T14:36:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![JohnPopes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@JohnPopes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JohnPopes)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-how-to-know-what-instance-is-under-the-mouse-cursor/283385/1 "2009-03-05T14:36:39Z")

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is there any function that returns the instance of the movieclip under the mouse pointer?

like adding a listener to the mousemove, and get the instance under the cursor returned?

i need a way that consumes only a little of the cpu…