Comments on: The Event Object http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/17/the-event-object/ A digital supplement for the O'Reilly book Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:09:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Rich http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/17/the-event-object/#comment-6437 Rich Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:02:58 +0000 http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/17/the-event-object/#comment-6437 @David, thanks for your support! CS5 still uses AS3, and all the learning fundamentals remain the same from CS3 onward. I hope you enjoy the book! @David, thanks for your support! CS5 still uses AS3, and all the learning fundamentals remain the same from CS3 onward. I hope you enjoy the book!

]]> By: David http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/17/the-event-object/#comment-6436 David Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:21:36 +0000 http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/17/the-event-object/#comment-6436 Awesome explanation. I need your book!!! Do you have a new version coming out for CS5 or is that still using AS3? Fantastic job explaining the ins and outs of the event object. I was really stuck on this but I have just got my function to work correctly and now I am going back and streamlining all the previous ones that I had written the hard way (long way). Love it, thanks heaps. David. Awesome explanation. I need your book!!! Do you have a new version coming out for CS5 or is that still using AS3?
Fantastic job explaining the ins and outs of the event object. I was really stuck on this but I have just got my function to work correctly and now I am going back and streamlining all the previous ones that I had written the hard way (long way).

Love it, thanks heaps.

David.

]]> By: Rasterstudios http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/17/the-event-object/#comment-4245 Rasterstudios Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:13:47 +0000 http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/17/the-event-object/#comment-4245 This one helped me as well, and I got your book too. very nice book with neat chapters and the look and feel is great! Thanks you so much Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser! This one helped me as well, and I got your book too. very nice book with neat chapters and the look and feel is great! Thanks you so much Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser!

]]> By: Igor http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/17/the-event-object/#comment-3111 Igor Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:25:08 +0000 http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/17/the-event-object/#comment-3111 Very nice article, this one helped me as well. Very nice article, this one helped me as well.

]]> By: Rich http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/17/the-event-object/#comment-38 Rich Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:37:07 +0000 http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/17/the-event-object/#comment-38 Thanks for letting us know about your success, Rodney! Thanks for letting us know about your success, Rodney!

]]> By: Rodney Gracia http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/17/the-event-object/#comment-30 Rodney Gracia Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:26:10 +0000 http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2007/11/17/the-event-object/#comment-30 A colleague and I are designing an application that uses drag and drop functionality. The movie clips being dragged have a dynamic text field inside that will be populated programmatically with AS. We have added the listeners that check for MouseDown and MouseUp to the movie clips (parents of the text field). Now we reference the movie clip being dragged in the test functions that start and stop the dragging as "event.target"; we noticed that if the object below the mouse when dragging begins is the movie clip background, not the text field, the dragging works, however, if you happen to click on the dynamic text field and start dragging, the reference to "event.target" generates an error: ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property startDrag not found on flash.text.TextField and there is no default value. at 00_start_stop_drag_fla::MainTimeline/onStartDrag() myMovieClip2 So even though we are dragging an entire movie clip, because of the way event.target works it fails when the target is the text field inside the MC. This article showed me how to fix that. We use currentTarget instead and the app now works well. A colleague and I are designing an application that uses drag and drop functionality. The movie clips being dragged have a dynamic text field inside that will be populated programmatically with AS. We have added the listeners that check for MouseDown and MouseUp to the movie clips (parents of the text field). Now we reference the movie clip being dragged in the test functions that start and stop the dragging as “event.target”; we noticed that if the object below the mouse when dragging begins is the movie clip background, not the text field, the dragging works, however, if you happen to click on the dynamic text field and start dragging, the reference to “event.target” generates an error:

ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property startDrag not found on flash.text.TextField and there is no default value.
at 00_start_stop_drag_fla::MainTimeline/onStartDrag()
myMovieClip2

So even though we are dragging an entire movie clip, because of the way event.target works it fails when the target is the text field inside the MC. This article showed me how to fix that. We use currentTarget instead and the app now works well.

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