# Mouse events and overlapping movie clips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-events-and-overlapping-movie-clips/293360>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 27, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-events-and-overlapping-movie-clips/293360 "2009-07-27T21:47:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![alechu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@alechu](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/alechu)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-events-and-overlapping-movie-clips/293360/1 "2009-07-27T21:47:37Z")

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If two or move movie clips overlap, everything underneath the top movie clip does not seem to receive mouse events. I tried many things, including setting “.mouseEnabled = false;” on the top movie clip and its constituents, but it still eats up all mouse interaction. Is there a way around this? Listening to all mouse events and using hitTest is not an option in my case.