# This.(stage/root) isn't mouseable?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-stage-root-isnt-mouseable/295035
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**Created:** [August 24, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-stage-root-isnt-mouseable/295035 "2009-08-24T16:28:41Z")
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### Author: ![rokosz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5e925/32.png) [@rokosz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rokosz)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-stage-root-isnt-mouseable/295035/1 "2009-08-24T16:28:41Z")

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Questions are easy (Have I lost my mind?) – and i don’t think this (scuse the pun) gets much easier. Ahh but the answer…  
400x500 stage, single layer (or with the AS in a 2nd layer) with a jpg (80x250) centered on stage  
and symbol’d to graphic (or mc).

why doesn’t the following function traces appear when mousing in and out of the stage?:

// or MOUSE\_HOVER  
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL\_OVER,MOver);  
this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL\_OUT,MOut);

function Mover(event:MouseEvent) {  
trace(“In Mouse”);  
}  
function CloseDoor(event:MouseEvent) {  
trace(“out mouse”);  
}  
trace(“loaded”);

So obviously a newb…thanks, Bryan