Proper hitTest in AS3

After many ugly attempts at handling hit tests in AS3 I finally managed to solve what I was looking for. The thing I forgot to consider was to use the global mouse-coordinates.

public function hitTestMouse(hitarea:DisplayObject):Boolean {
    return hitarea.hitTestPoint(hitarea.stage.mouseX, hitarea.stage.mouseY, true);
}

The last parameter (shapeFlag) would decide if the hit test are checked any actual shapes inside the hitarea that the mouse is hovering above.

Take the picture below as an example, say that the two buttons "autoskrap" and "vinstkontroll" are inside a movie clip (marked as the grayish box) if the shapeFlag is set to false (default) the hitTestMouse-function would return true whenever the mouse were somewhere inside the gray box. If the shapeFlag is set to true it would only return true if the mouse were over the actual buttons.