# \[MX04\] Detect is mouse is over movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx04-detect-is-mouse-is-over-movieclip/69526>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 5, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx04-detect-is-mouse-is-over-movieclip/69526 "2004-11-05T00:30:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rasper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc29f/32.png) [@Rasper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Rasper)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mx04-detect-is-mouse-is-over-movieclip/69526/1 "2004-11-05T00:30:41Z")

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Hi there,

You might think that this is a stupid question, since everyone who knows a little bit of actionscripting, knows that this can be achieved with onRollOver … But that’s not exactly what I’m looking for.

I have a small tooltip which follows the mouse and asks the user to click in order to close a picture. The tooltip follows the mouse using startDrag(“tooltip”, true);

But I’d like to remove the tooltip once the user moves the mousepointer outside the picture.  
Though, when you use onRollOver, the mousepointer changes into a finger. This is not what I’m looking for since the picture than functions and looks like a button.

So is there any way to detect if a mousepointer is over a movieclip, without changing the cursor?