# Pop-up menu and button issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pop-up-menu-and-button-issue/234466>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 2, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pop-up-menu-and-button-issue/234466 "2007-08-02T13:55:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![BHale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@BHale](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/BHale)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/pop-up-menu-and-button-issue/234466/1 "2007-08-02T13:55:44Z")

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Wow… It’s been so long since I’ve been active here I had to create a new account!

Well. At any rate… Hello all and thank you in advance for any help you may be able to lend to my plight.

I don’t have much issue with old school animation (Tweening/Keyframing) in Flash which is what I’m acustomed to. But I realize my need to begin doing it in actionscripting and frankly AS makes my mind bleed when I look at it. \>\<

Nonetheless, as a designer I’ve been handed the task of building an web-based interactive console for a future project. I’ve met only a few minor snags but one is really bothering me.

I have an invisible “button” (MC+AS, not a Buton symbol) that fills most of the main body of the console in the background. I also have a few navigation links at the bottom which on release bring up a respective pop-up menu of extra “tools” (MC). My issue is that when the pop-up is up and active on the stage I can still click the invisible button underneath and perform its actions. I need these pop-ups to be “solid” if that makes sense. When they are up and active I don’t want functionality of whats beneath them to come through.

Is there a simple fix for this or am I looking a bigger issue?

Thank you all again for the assistance.

-B-