# Problem with disabling movieclip and it's children

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-with-disabling-movieclip-and-its-children/63576>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 8, 2004, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-with-disabling-movieclip-and-its-children/63576 "2004-09-08T04:29:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Carlos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Carlos](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Carlos)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2004, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-with-disabling-movieclip-and-its-children/63576/1 "2004-09-08T04:29:57Z")

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G’day,

Is there anyway to disable a parent MovieClip (mcName.enabled = false) but still allow it’s child(ren) movieclip(s) to retain event handling?

Cheers,  
c

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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:** [September 8, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-with-disabling-movieclip-and-its-children/63576/2 "2004-09-08T17:00:43Z")

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hmm … did you try adding some kind of code to the child clips to try it? i haven’t ever tried to do anything like that before. i guess the fastest way to find out is to try.

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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:** [September 8, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problem-with-disabling-movieclip-and-its-children/63576/3 "2004-09-08T17:08:53Z")

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I don’t think so. I believe if you disable a movie clip you disable everything within it.

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