Inheritance doesn't work with enabled?

Question

I don't know if this changed in flash 8 or I'm just senile
but it seems to me that when I disabled a movieclip, any and all
controls inside of that movieclip (buttons, child movie clips, etc)
were also disabled, via inheritance.

I started using Flash 8 back in June and have noticed that it
doesn't work (when I have time, I will return to mx and see if it
works there, as my memory tells me it does). Am I missing something
or what? How come inheritance doesn't work when it comes to the
enabled setting? Anyone have a work around?

My current project involves a movieclip that holds
dynamically generated movieclips (and hence I have no idea what
will be on the screen at any given time) and when an overlay is
displayed above this, I need to disable those movieclips. The easy
solution was to disable the "mother movieclip" but that doesn't
work.

edited to add: I just tried it in mx and it's the same deal.
Coulda sworn you could disable child controls by disabling the
parent. Any ideas? Thanks!

IwannaFlashU · Answer

yes, we've done that in the past, using the code to prevent mouseOver cursor from showing up on that fake button you mention.

the problem with that, is those controls are not really deactivated and can still be accessed via the tab+enter keys.

and YES we have added code to disable that stuff......but in my opinion, that is not the "clean code" way to do something...just jury-rigging.

Thanks for the response, but I'm lookikng for a better way to do this. I just don't get why inheritance works with other attributes such as invisible but not enabled?

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