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curiousmedia on 10/15/09


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What am I REALLY clicking on!?

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Will trace the name of the display object that is actually receiving mouse events. Useful when the target of your mouse event is not what you are expecting. Oh, the fix 80% of the time is mouseChildren = false;

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  1. addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, function(e:MouseEvent):void{trace(e.target+" : "+e.target.name);});

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Posted By: curiousmedia on October 16, 2009

For when you really get confused, here's how to apply that to every clickable object in your movie makeEverythingIDselfOnClick(this);

function IDselfOnClick(e:MouseEvent):void { trace("you clicked on ["+e.currentTarget+"] "+e.currentTarget.name); }

function makeEverythingIDselfOnClick(target:DisplayObjectContainer):void { trace("target = " + target.name) for(var i:int=0; i

Posted By: curiousmedia on October 16, 2009

aw, c'mon - no code in comments? seriously?

Posted By: curiousmedia on October 16, 2009 
makeEverythingIDselfOnClick(this);

function IDselfOnClick(e:MouseEvent):void
{
    trace("you clicked on ["+e.currentTarget+"] "+e.currentTarget.name);
}
        
function makeEverythingIDselfOnClick(target:DisplayObjectContainer):void
{
    trace("target = " + target.name)
    for(var i:int=0; i<target.numChildren; i++)
    {
        var child = target.getChildAt(i);
        if( (child is InteractiveObject) )
        {
            InteractiveObject(child).addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,IDselfOnClick, false, 0, true);
        }
        if( (child is DisplayObjectContainer)&&(child != target) )
        {
            makeEverythingIDselfOnClick(child);
        }
    }
}
Posted By: curiousmedia on October 16, 2009

there we go!

Posted By: knalle on October 19, 2009

also keep in mind that if you have a MovieClip (or similar) and you want all InteractiveObject children accepting clicks, you could use one single listener on the container object and use "target" to catch the children. But beware of the DisplayObjects that aren't InteractiveObjects (like Shapes) - they will not be refered to when clicking, thus "target" will refer to the container InteractiveObject - unless the "useCapture" in the listener is set to "true" - then it will not respond on clicks on non-InteractiveObjects.

obj.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, objClick, false);

function objClick(e:MouseEvent):void { trace("ct:", e.currentTarget.name); // traces: obj's name trace(e.target.name); //traces: nested objects name }

Posted By: knalle on October 19, 2009

(oh, i guess I'm just elaborating on thing already posted)

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