# trackAsMenu?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trackasmenu/22683>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [June 7, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trackasmenu/22683 "2003-06-07T01:18:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![adham\_a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/91b2a8/32.png) [@adham\_a](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/adham_a)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trackasmenu/22683/1 "2003-06-07T01:18:16Z")

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Hello all,

Lately i was doing a 35 button menu in flash MX and i found this movieClip property trackAsMenu for movieClips and buttons. But i didn’t understand how it functions properly.

I found no post about it on the forum and the MX reference is not clear in describing it ???

Can anybody help and describe what is it for and how it functions.

Thanks

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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:** [June 7, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trackasmenu/22683/2 "2003-06-07T03:00:32Z")

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Normally, if you press a button, if you are still holding the mouse button down and drag your cursor over other buttons, they wont react. The focus is locked on the button you pressed. With trackAsMenu, when you do the same, other trackAsMenu buttons will react calling the appropriate on handlers which would normally be missed because of that ‘locking’

… an application is in ahmed’s footer. see  
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22714](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22714)  
I suggested to use trackAsMenu there which made drawing a lot easier