Hi Tim, unfortunately, that's exactly what happens :) If you apply a backgroundImage, the target of the click event will be the FlexLoader instance for that image, or in the case of a SWF, it'll be the actual SWF instance. To make matters worse, the background image is (as far as I've been able to tell) indistinguishable from a regular child, in that it counts towards numChildren's value, returns true on contains() and owns() etc. I'm looking through the SDK source to try to find exactly where it's added and how it manages to stay behind everything, but this is certainly puzzling. - Ken
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Tim Hoff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > >
