# Mouse moving out of SWF movie

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-moving-out-of-swf-movie/21651
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 24, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-moving-out-of-swf-movie/21651 "2003-05-24T12:53:57Z")
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### Author: ![eddepet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/67e7ee/32.png) [@eddepet](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/eddepet)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-moving-out-of-swf-movie/21651/1 "2003-05-24T12:53:57Z")

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I have a small problem and I hope anyone of you people know the answer.

Is it posssible in actionscript to see if the mouse pointer moves out from the movie?  
Or trace the mouse coordinates when it is outside of the movie?

Thanks in advance.

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mouse-moving-out-of-swf-movie/21651/2 "2003-05-24T15:50:32Z")

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No I don’t believe it is.

You can use an invisible button or hitTest to create workarounds to check if your mouse is over the movie or not, but as for getting mouse coordinates outside of the movie, I don’t believe you can do that.