onPress (MovieClip.onPress handler)

onPress = function() {}

Invoked when the user clicks the mouse while the pointer is over a movie clip. You must define a function that executes when the event handler is invoked. You can define the function in the library.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 6

Example

The following example defines a function for the onPress() method that sends a trace() action to the Output panel:

my_mc.onPress = function () {
    trace("onPress called");
}