# On Mouseover

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-mouseover/8234>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 16, 2002, 12:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-mouseover/8234 "2002-11-16T12:21:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![tommytogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tommytogs](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tommytogs)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 12:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-mouseover/8234/1 "2002-11-16T12:21:25Z")

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Yes, I know how thick I must sound, but all I want to do is to have some text appear when the mouse goes over a certain picture. I used to be able to do it on older versions of Flash, but I have no idea how to do it on Flash MX. Do I have to use actionscripting nowadays?

Please help, Cheers

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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:** [November 16, 2002, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/on-mouseover/8234/2 "2002-11-16T12:33:57Z")

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well… make a button, leave the “up” frame empty, type the text in the “over” frame and in the “hit” frame draw a box or something do define the are where the mouse must be for the text to appear.