--- In [email protected], "David Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that you are seeing two different things that you probably are not > expecting. > Firstly, the controls inside the VBox will also raise mouseOut event and > these will bubble up to your handler on the VBox. > Secondly, when the mouse moves from being in only the VBox to being in > another control, even one that is contained inside the VBox, that will still > generate a mouseOut from the VBox. > > Fortunately there is another MouseEvent you can use: RollOut. "The purpose > of the rollOut event is to simplify the coding of rollover behaviors for > display object containers with children. When the mouse leaves the area of a > display object or the area of any of its children to go to an object that is > not one of its children, the display object dispatches the ROLL_OUT event." > > -- > david > "The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no > difference between theory and practice" >
Awesome! Thank for the answer, I have been banging my head against mouseOut trying to work out a hack to make it work with child elements. I figured that there must have been some other method - but there was no mention in the help cross referenced with mouseOut that I could find.
