I just read the documentation for Flex, "The Event Flow": "Flash Player or AIR dispatches event objects whenever an event occurs. If the event target is not on the display list, Flash Player or AIR dispatches the event object directly to the event target. For example, Flash Player dispatches the progress event object directly to a URLStream object. If the event target is on the display list, however, Flash Player dispatches the event object into the display list, and the event object travels through the display list to the event target."
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=16_Event_handling_4.html It looks to me like, in the case in which they mention above, "Flash Player" or "AIR" becomes the source who dispatches the event object and the event target is actually the one that "listens" to the event. Does this "target" term then sound something that makes more sense to lower level programming (such as Flash Player engineers?)? From an API user's point of view, an event source is only "source" anyways... Thanks. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Samuel Colak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Umm.... > > You have "currentTarget" and "target" - most of the time, these return > very different > values depending on what happened ... > > On Sep 24, 2008, at 11:14 PM, Chuck Preston Jr. wrote: > > > For the same reason tree structures are upside down, with their > > roots at the top. ActionScript > > is from the Bizzaro world. > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "gwangdesign" <gwangdesign@> > > wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > >
