highlighting text causes movie buttons not to work

[nehcdet]

I have a movie with some movieclips and some texts in it. The texts are selectable, so that user can highlight the texts and do a ctrl-c copy. The movieclips has some onRelease/onPress event listeners.

Everything works fine until user highlights the texts. After user has done that, the movieclips start to not catch every event. I mean not every onRelease/ event can be caught any more. In about 50% of the case, flash stops to dispatch these events.

Has anyone experience the same thing? Any clue?

Your help is appreciated.

Ted

[nehcdet]

More investigation reveals it only happens when there's a "compiled clip", in my case a scrollpane, in the library.

Is this a flash bug?

[VikTehOne]

I usually use button.onRelease=function(){;} and never had any problems... You say you used listeners. Try setting a function directly to the button. I don't know if it will change anything...

[nehcdet]

What you suggested is what I normally do too.

The bug is easy to produce. Just create a new fla, add a textfield, a movie clip onto the stage. In the movie clip code add the onRollOver, onRelease, onPress ... functions. Test it: Highlight the text in the text box, click the mc multiple times. Everything works fine.

Now, add a compiled clip, scrollpane, to your library (you don't even need to add an instance onto stage). Test it: Highlight the text in the text box, click the mc multiple times without moving your mouse. You will see some onPress/onRelease events are not dispatched every time. Instead, sometimes, onRollover/onRollout events were dispatched in place of onPress/onRelease.

I'm attaching the above test fla with trace statements in the event functions. You can see what I mean.