Yeah, this bothered me to start with too. I have gotten over it. They are just words, after all.
Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gwangdesign Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 4:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Programming 101: event target Hi, I am just wondering why, in ActionScript, the subject of an event is called a "target"? Is it kind of counter intuitive? In Java, it is called "source", which sounds much more understandable to me. Thanks.

