# How to make an MC not receive mouse events?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-an-mc-not-receive-mouse-events/275316>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 12, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-an-mc-not-receive-mouse-events/275316 "2008-11-12T12:47:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mistykal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8edcca/32.png) [@Mistykal](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mistykal)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-an-mc-not-receive-mouse-events/275316/1 "2008-11-12T12:47:44Z")

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Hiya, I have two movieclips each on its own layer, overlapping each other.  
Is it possible to programaticly disable the top movieclip from receiving mouse events, so that only the bottom one will register a mouse over event, etc?

thanks in advance,  
Kal