# Movie clip vs. Button

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-vs-button/329799>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 17, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-vs-button/329799 "2012-10-17T13:39:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![anne23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9c0ed/32.png) [@anne23](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/anne23)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-vs-button/329799/1 "2012-10-17T13:39:00Z")

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I am trying to create a drop down menu. I have one button that should make the menu visible when rolled over and the menu itself should become invisible when rolled out. The problem is:

If the menu is a movie clip, the only object that works with the mouse out action is the top-most object, even on the same layer. If I have sub-menu buttons over the background box of the menu, moving over the sub-menu buttons moves you “out” of the menu object and the menu goes away. This happens whether the sub-menu buttons are inside of the menu movie clip object or not.

If the menu is a button, I can’t write actionscript to activate the sub-menu buttons.

Anne