How do I stop mouse_out firing when mouse click fires - actionscript-3

Question

I have buttons that have mouse_over, mouse_out and CLICK events. But when I click the button it takes me to another frame and the mouse_out event tried to fire. How do I stop that happening?
act1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, act1Pressed);
act1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, act1Over);
act1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, act1Out);
act1_btn.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, act1EnterFrame);
function act1Over(e:MouseEvent):void
{
trace("over");
act1Animating = true;
logo_1.visible = true;
bubble.visible = true;
txt1.visible = true;
}
function act1Out(e:MouseEvent):void
{
act1Animating = false;
logo_1.visible = false;
bubble.visible = false;
txt1.visible = false;
}
function act1EnterFrame(e:Event):void
{
if (act1Animating && e.target.scaleY < 1.1)
{
e.target.scaleY += 0.02;
e.target.scaleX += 0.02;
}
if (!act1Animating && e.target.scaleY > 1)
{
e.target.scaleY -= 0.02;
e.target.scaleX -= 0.02;
}
}
function act1Pressed(e:MouseEvent):void
{
trace("clicked");
act1Animating = false;
logo_1.visible = false;
bubble.visible = false;
txt1.visible = false;
gotoAndStop(2);
}

Answer 1

Here are two ways to handle this:
1) Only assign the MOUSE_OUT listener in the MOUSE_OVER handler, then remove it after the MOUSE_OUT handler is done. I.e.,
function act1Over(e:MouseEvent):void {
/* your code */
act1_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, act1Out);
}
function act1Out(e:MouseEvent):void {
/* your code */
act1_btn.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, act1Out);
}
2) Use stopPropagation() in your CLICK handler:
function act1Pressed(e:MouseEvent):void {
/* your code */
e.stopPropagation();
}
Also, in the future, please use code tags to mark up your code!

Answer 2

It might not be a bad idea to give ROLL_OVER and ROLL_OUT MouseEvent a shot instead. These just fire once when someone rolls over the object, or rolls out, instead of firing continuously.

Answer 3

When you click a button , you will trigger a MouseOver & a MouseOut event , if you don't wish to trigger the MouseOut event after the Click event , then you should remove the MouseOut event listener in the Click event listener.
This means that in order to be sure that you have a MouseOut listener when you MouseOver , you should add your MouseOut listener in the MouseOver listener.
Finally, you should remove the MouseOut event listener within the MouseOut listener.