Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

I haven't the foggiest what you are trying to say here.  What are you
really trying to do?

Hi J.R.;

Try to write a function in the first frame of the main timeline such as:

_root.mc1.mc2.onRelease = function(){
 getURL("mailto:you@somedomain.com");
};

And don?t forget to put the text field inside a new movieclip. This movieclip
should
be inside the movieclip you?ve already created, and apply an instance name to
both of them, i.e = mc1, mc2.

Hope this helps.

This probably would have been a better post for the AS3 forums. Under AS2 I
would guess that the parent movie clip also has some kind of mouse event code
that traps the event before it can get down to the text movie clip.

However that shouldn't be a problem in AS3 since all dependents get notified
unless you've turned that off.

Also it is generally better to actually show the code instead of telling us
what you think you've done. A lot of problems on these boards can be solved
just by looking at the code -- or hours and hours of back and forth posts. So
please post just the part of the code that sets up the event listener and the
event handler.