Nope, that's correct behavior. There is no capture phase on the target, only on its parents. http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/events.html#Events-flow
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dsds99 Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Debugging manual drag and drop events Ok I drag the green box onto the white one during the capture phase bigBox.addEventListener(DragEvent.DRAG_ENTER,dragEnterHandler) output = "Entered bigBox" Now if I set it to capture phase bigBox.addEventListener(DragEvent.DRAG_ENTER,dragEnterHandler,true) output = nothing I think the output should still be "Entered bigBox" I attached the code below <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> " layout="absolute" xmlns:local="*" creationComplete="init()"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import flash.events.MouseEvent; import mx.core.UIComponent; import mx.events.DragEvent; import mx.managers.DragManager; public var bigBox:UIComponent = new UIComponent(); public var dragBox:UIComponent = new UIComponent(); public function init():void{ bigBox.graphics.beginFill(0xffffff); bigBox.graphics.drawRect(0,0,100,100); bigBox.name = "bigBox"; dragBox.graphics.beginFill(0x234232); dragBox.graphics.drawRect(200,0,100,100); dragBox.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN,onStartDrag); bigBox.addEventListener(DragEvent.DRAG_ENTER,dragEnterHandler,true); this.addChild(bigBox); this.addChild(dragBox); } private function dragEnterHandler(event:DragEvent):void { trace("enter "+ event.currentTarget.name); // Accept the drop. DragManager.acceptDragDrop(event.currentTarget as UIComponent); } private function onStartDrag(e:MouseEvent):void { DragManager.doDrag(e.currentTarget as UIComponent,null,e,e.currentTarget as UIComponent); } ]]> </mx:Script> </mx:Application>

