All buttons in all files are now showing error: Mouse events are permitted only for button instances.

Question

Somebody please help:
I've taught myself enough with Flash to customize a
fully-Flash template for my wife's website, and two of the buttons
didn't do what I wanted them to in Actionscript. They then began
giving me the message:
**Error** Symbol=sub_butt1, layer=Layer 4, frame=1:Line 1:
Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on (rollOver) {
**Error** Symbol=sub_butt1, layer=Layer 4, frame=1:Line 4:
Mouse events are permitted only for button instances
on (releaseOutside, rollOut) {
Total ActionScript Errors: 2 Reported Errors: 2
Not only do I not know how to fix this, the same message
comes up for every single button in the entire fla I had saved,
plus earlier versions where I hadn't even messed with the buttons
yet.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Hello Corbett,
The error is saying that you are trying to apply a button
action to something
other than a button. Often this happens when you select the
frame that the
button is on instead of the actual button, thus applying the
action to the
frame instead of the button.
Make sure you select the button on the stage and then apply
the actions there.
You'll probably have to remove the action from the frame
before it will work
(looks like it's on Layer 4 frame 1).
Good luck!
Jesse H.
Adobe Community Expert
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http://www.jharding.com
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> Somebody please help:
> I've taught myself enough with Flash to customize a
fully-Flash
> template for
> my wife's website, and two of the buttons didn't do what
I wanted them
> to in
> Actionscript. They then began giving me the message:
>
> **Error** Symbol=sub_butt1, layer=Layer 4, frame=1:Line
1: Mouse
> events are
> permitted only for button instances
> on (rollOver) {
> **Error** Symbol=sub_butt1, layer=Layer 4, frame=1:Line
4: Mouse
> events are
> permitted only for button instances
> on (releaseOutside, rollOut) {
> Total ActionScript Errors: 2 Reported Errors: 2
>
> Not only do I not know how to fix this, the same message
comes up for
> every
> single button in the entire fla I had saved, plus
earlier versions
> where I
> hadn't even messed with the buttons yet.
> Any suggestions?