Mark got right to the heart of it, and I goofed twice: when I set up the script, and then again when I tested Mark's theory the first time. The button had a movie script attached to it. (Director won't let you do that, but it will let you change the script type after it's been attached. I wonder why.) Thanks, Mark! I'm grateful to all of you on this list for all the help. Slava At 07:24 PM 8/21/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Perhaps the script on the button is a movie script instead of a >behavior. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Slava Paperno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 7:16 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: <lingo-l> button catches all mouseclicks > > >All of a sudden one button on the stage (a standard button, made with >the >button tool) started catching all mouseclicks in the frame, including >clicks on empty stage areas. The only way to stop this that I found is >to >put a stopEvent in the mouse handlers of every object--but that doesn't >intercept clicks on empty stage areas, of course. What's going on? Why >this >particular button? What could be causing this? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]