# Please Help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/264166>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [June 23, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/264166 "2008-06-23T18:04:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![s0undsystem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@s0undsystem](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/s0undsystem)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/264166/1 "2008-06-23T18:04:15Z")

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hey guys.

Please help me; I cannot figure out how to do this in Actionscript 3.0:

Using **movie clip buttons** , how do you get the button to stay in the “mouse over” state after it has been clicked? I do not want the button to do anything at all after it is clicked.

I found this online and it works perfectly for actionscript 2.0 but i need it in 3.0. anyone know how to do this in 3.0?

```auto
MovieClip.prototype.checkMe = function() {
	if (this._currentframe == 2) {
		this.btn.enabled = true;
		this.gotoAndStop(1);
	}
};
btn_mc1.btn.onRelease = function() {
       	btn_mc1.btn.enabled = false;
	btn_mc2.checkMe();
	btn_mc3.checkMe();
};
btn_mc2.btn.onRelease = function() {
	btn_mc2.btn.enabled = false;
	btn_mc1.checkMe();
	btn_mc3.checkMe();
};
btn_mc3.btn.onRelease = function() {
	btn_mc3.btn.enabled = false;
	btn_mc2.checkMe();
	btn_mc1.checkMe();
};

```

Please help and THANK YOU

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**Author:** ![nikefido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ed8c4c/32.png) [@nikefido](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nikefido)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/264166/2 "2008-06-23T18:44:18Z")

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this is not AS3

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**Author:** ![s0undsystem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@s0undsystem](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/s0undsystem)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/264166/3 "2008-06-23T18:50:56Z")

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i know the code is not in AS3. I need to know how to do this in AS3. this code does what i want in AS2 but i want it in AS3 and i cannot figure out how to do it.

thanks for the comment.

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**Author:** ![nikefido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ed8c4c/32.png) [@nikefido](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nikefido)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help/264166/4 "2008-06-23T19:24:33Z")

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there are a few things to know.  
Once you have a button or movieclip acting as a button, you need to make it “listen” for a mouse click on it (or any mouse event, such as roll over, roll out, etc).

so, for example:  
ActionScript Code:  
[LEFT]btn.[COLOR=#000080]addEventListener[/COLOR][COLOR=#000000]([/COLOR]MouseEvent.[COLOR=#000080]CLICK[/COLOR], onClick[COLOR=#000000])[/COLOR];

[COLOR=#000000] **function** [/COLOR] onClickCOLOR=#000000[/COLOR]:[COLOR=#0000FF]void[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]{[/COLOR]  
[COLOR=#808080]_//do something - i’m not sure if “enabled” and “disabled” is part of as3 any longer_[/COLOR]  
[COLOR=#0000FF]trace[/COLOR]COLOR=#000000[/COLOR]; [COLOR=#808080]_//traces the btn clicked - you can access it’s properties/mthods via e.target_[/COLOR]  
[COLOR=#000000]}[/COLOR]  
[/LEFT]