Hi Ken, I'm pretty sure that the target will never be the background image itself; but rather the Canvas. One hack is to check the type:
if (evt.target is Canvas) -TH --- In [email protected], Ken Dunnington <ken.dunning...@...> wrote: > > I've got a custom component based on Canvas, and I'm programmatically > setting its background-image style to a loaded SWF. I need to be able to > differentiate between a click on the background, and a click on any of the > other children. WIth no background set, I was using this code: > > private function clickHandler (evt:MouseEvent):void > > { > > if (evt.target == this) > > { > > setFocus(); > > dispatchEvent(new CanvasEvent(CanvasEvent.CLEAR_FOCUS)); > > } > > } > > > WIth a background-image, however, this no longer works. I've also tried > listening for the target phase, but the event never actually reaches the > canvas object. I do have a separate ICollectionView instance containing all > the other children, but I'd like to avoid having to use that for this > handler, if possible. >
