# Preventing event dispatch

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preventing-event-dispatch/304830>\
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**Created:** [February 15, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preventing-event-dispatch/304830 "2010-02-15T03:54:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlexWD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@AlexWD](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AlexWD)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/preventing-event-dispatch/304830/1 "2010-02-15T03:54:58Z")

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I have a class that extends the MovieClip class, is there a way that I can prevent this MovieClip from dispatching a certain event? More specifically I want to prevent it from dispatching MouseEvent.CLICK under certain conditions.