# Help? involuntary "onReleaseOutside"?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-involuntary-onreleaseoutside/247750>\
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**Created:** [December 29, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-involuntary-onreleaseoutside/247750 "2007-12-29T00:37:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![rhineheart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@rhineheart](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rhineheart)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-involuntary-onreleaseoutside/247750/1 "2007-12-29T00:37:57Z")

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dear all.

first of all thanks to Wes and Jibble if they read this.  
i took your advice seriously and redid my complete page, kicking out all the stop(); and doing nested buttons als MC instead. way, way better.  
you can see the results here, just open “series”.  
[http://www.expozure.net](http://www.expozure.net)  
i have two problems and cannot find a way to solve them.

1. although i define …

agata.onRelease=function(){  
getURL(“Series/Agata/index.html”,“images”);  
agata.\_alpha=50;  
}

i can not get the button to remain alpha=50 when active, although the according swf loads correctly.

as an alternative i have tried this

agata.onPress=function(){  
agata.\_alpha=50;  
}

this is not working either.

1. instead what i get is an unvoluntary “onReleaseOutside”, meaning when i click the button, move the mouse off the button and release it then, the button appears and stays in a lighter grey (alpha=50), but the link is not working.

all very odd …  
what i was trying to achive was:

- the button (agata) should look lighter when the mouse rolls over it
- should turn darker again when the mouse leaves the button
- should call up a link when clicked
- should stay alpha=50 as long as active and as long as no other button has been hit or rolled over.

my code goes like this, “RollOver”, RollOut" and “OnRelease” are working just fine:

agata.\_alpha=100;

agata.onRollOver=function(){  
agata.\_alpha=50;  
}  
agata.onRollOut=function(){  
agata.\_alpha=100;  
}  
agata.onRelease=function(){  
getURL(“Series/Agata/index.html”,“images”);  
}  
agata.onPress=function(){  
agata.\_alpha=100;  
}

thanks for reading, any help would be appreciated.

rhineheart