Strange bug. AS3 button - actionscript-3

Strange bug with every my button on stage.
When mouse over to my button - button go to frame 2.
When mouse click to button - button first go to frame 1, after to frame 3.
Button have right, full bounding box. My .fla document not have code. Just one button on stage. Previously, I had no such problem. It appears a few months ago ...

I would need to see your code for proof, but this is probably because of a bad event listener.
Check to make sure you're not listening for a MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER. Listen for a MouseEvent.MOUSE_CLICK to handle your function properly.

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Why do I have to click the movie for my character to respond?

My movie has 3 frames, first one is the welcome screen with the play button, and after I press it and jumped to frame2 I have to click the movie for my character/player to respond and move by arrows. Same happens if I go back to frame2 from my game-over screen placed on frame3.
I use gotoAndPlay(); to navigate frames, naturally.
if it's something having to do with my code from frame2 i will post what it is required. I'd like to know why is that happening and how to fix it. THANKS!
Clicking your character gives it focus.
Only* what has focus receives keyboard events.
If you register the listener for the keyboard event on your character object, you have to click it first, before it receives those events.
However, the KeyboardEvents bubble up the display list and eventually reach the top most container which is the stage. This gives you two options:
Handle the focus yourself by assigning the object that should have focus to the stage.focus property. This is basically doing what the clicking does in your current situation.http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/display/Stage.html#focus
register your listeners at the stage
The user simply needs to click anywhere on the flash stage to add keyboard focus. Normally, a good way of achieving this is by using a start button, or something similar, for that first bit of mouse/keyboard focus.

Actionscript 3: Simple Button

I am working on a project in which a button is clicked, and the frame jumps and stops at a certain area. The button I have is called cancelmenu_btn. It is spread over 1 keyframe (over 5 frames) on an actions layer. The coding for the back button is:
menuback_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, menubackClick);
function menubackClick(event:MouseEvent):void{
gotoAndStop (2);
}
Yet, the back button only works on one of the frames - frame 3. I have a link to my project:
https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=9AB08B59DCCDF9C6&resid=9AB08B59DCCDF9C6%21110&authkey=ALkJwkJaKg7ypI0
What am I doing wrong with the menuback_btn?
There are a few things you have to check if you want the button active. First, make sure your code is on the first frame because it does not become active until that frame hits.
Second, make sure your button is also on the first frame, but then it will associate your btn.addEventListener(Function) correctly.

Flash buttons flicker continuously when compiled

I am looking for some help with Flash (CS5 version). I have a situation where if try to put a button on the stage with visible differences in the up/over/down/hit states, when I compile the document into a .swf, the button will continuously flicker through each state in order very quickly. Also, if I break the AS3 code in the Main class file, hidden parts of a slider bar component will flicker between visible and not. I'm talking Japanese-style, seizure-inducing flicker here. I've searched my code for recursive function calls and tried deleting and re-adding components and buttons, but to no avail. Any ideas on what could be up?
Well, it seems to me you aren't using stop() to stop the button at the frame you want.
If it isn't this, then there is some error with your ActionScript, which will show up in the output panel, so check that.
When you say 'button' is it an instance of the Button Class and have you set the instance type to Button?
i.e.
Select the button in your library panel, right click and choose 'Properties'. Then set the Type to Button.
Next, select the instance of the button on the stage, open the Properties panel and just underneath where you type the instance name you should see a drop down menu containing MovieClip, Button and Graphic. Set it to Button.

Page flip effect on button press in html5

I'm looking at this:
http://www.netmagazine.com/tutorials/create-page-flip-effect-html5-canvas
However, I have one problem with that - I need to be able to click on the pages, even the edges, without triggering the page turn. I want the pages to turn when a button outside of the canvas is pressed. Is this possible using the base they provided, or do I need to go an entirely different direction?
Yes that can be done.
From what i can see, you need a click event that doesnt trigger the page drag. You need to assign a flag for this.
Let Drag = mouse drag/mouse move, down = mouse down, release = mouse release events respectively.
Initialize your flag variable as false. When a drag event is encountered it becomes true. Otherwise it remains false. As long as it is false when the mouse release event occurs it can be treated as a click. Thats the basic principle behind using mousedown and mouseup as a click event.
You will have to use e.srcElement or e.target to give you the element your cursor is currently positioned over inorder to trigger click functions relative to that element.
If you want a more detailed explanation on the page flip technique then check this out. Helped me lot.

How can I press a swing JButton using mouse events?

I Have a JButton (or any Component, really) that I would like to trick into thinking that it has been clicked on and therefore firing its action performed event. I don't want to call the action performed or doClick directly because I am trying to make a solution that generalizes beyond buttons, and I am constrained to posting events.
I would have thought that posting a MousePressed event to the system event queue would have done it, but no. ( with appropriate location, click count etc.)
Then I thought a mouse entered followed by a mouse move, a mouse pressed, a mouse released, and a mouse clicked, but no.
None of this causes the JButton to fire its action performed like it does when I actually click on it.
Has anyone caused a JButton to spit out its action performed event by driving it with mouse events? Moved a JSlider with mouse events? Expanded a tree node?
Thanks for any help.
Have you tried the fireActionPerformed method? I can't off the top of my head now remember if all components have it but if i remember right, all buttons and menu items should deifnately have it. Just a thought