Menu dropdown woes

programming flash
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I have a drop down menu that I’m having a big issue with. Here’s how it should work:

I have a row of menu buttons. when I click on a button a panel drops down. When I click on the panel the panel stays. When I navigate away from the panel the panel stays. Only when I click off the panel does it disappear but never when I’m on it.

So my approach has been to set a variable whenever I click on a menu to record the current mc. Then, compare that to what’s under the cursor whenever I click.


//All buttons listener from Array;
for (var k:int=0; k<allArray.length; k++)
{
    main_mc[allArray[k]].addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, nmMouseDown);
}

function nmMouseDown(e:MouseEvent):void
{
    var buttonName:MovieClip = e.currentTarget as MovieClip;
    curMC = buttonName.name;
    main_mc[buttonName.name].gotoAndStop(2);
}


//Stage listener
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,globalMouseDown);

function globalMouseDown(e:Event):void
{
    if (main_mc[curMC].hitTestPoint(mouseX,mouseY,true))
    {
        //Nothing
    }
    else
    {
        rewindNav();
    }
}

function rewindNav():void
{
    for (var m:int=0; m<allArray.length; m++)
    {
        main_mc[allArray[m]].gotoAndStop(1);
    }
}

Any help is greatly appreciated!p

-SP