How to pass mouse clicks through TLF text?

Question

The .mouseEnabled doesn't work like it does on usual MovieClips. What's up?

Answer 1

Try setting selectable, mouseEnabled, mouseChildren, and for giggles mouseWheelEnabled all to false

Answer 2

Use

 text_field.mouseEnabled = false;
 text_field.mouseChildren = false;

mouseChildren means it's children don't register mouse events, they just dispatch from the parent. To completely disable it, BOTH need to be false.

Since the textfield is a child of the movie clip, the mouseChildren property is what is going to affect it, and you could just set that to false and it would still work.