Hello, I'm hoping someone will help me out with this issue. I've looked around
and can't quite find what I'm looking for. I have a button within a movie clip,
and I would like to have some sort of script that causes the movie clip to
gotoandplay a certain frame if the user clicks anywhere outside of the button.
The closest I came was using on releaseoutside, but this only seems to work if
they first click inside the button, and then drag and release outside. Any
suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

If you were to place a large invisible button also inside the MC, but on a
layer lower than your original button - it should do the trick.

An invisible button is a button that exists "only as a hit" - think of it as a
hotspot or slice. This surrounding, [i]Much Larger[/i] invisible button could
have it's own [b]gotoAndPlay(someFrame)[/b] when a release occurs.

Hope that helps

Thank you, but I actually already tried exactly that. The problem with it is
that I have other buttons and text links above the button in question, but
outside of the button area itself. So, when I click any of the other buttons it
doesn't register as a hit on the lower button that I'm trying to manipulate.

The webiste is for an art gallery. The issue that I'm having is there is a
large "upcoming exhibit" button on the homage page that consists of a large
image of some artwork. When I click any of the other navigation buttons on the
page, they just overlay the new content on top of the artwork picture, and the
artwork picture shows through. So, what I really want is for the artwork button
MC to move to a frame that fades out the artwork picture when any other link is
clicked on the page. This way, when the other content is layed on top you won't
see the artwork image showing through. This is a template my client requested I
use, and I'm not too happy with it. If you'd like to see what I mean, please
view the temporary file at: http://www.corvusart.com/gfa/site_gfa