Which currentTarget?

Hi--

I've got a container holding several overlapping buttons. I want the button under the arrow to come to the front on MOUSE_OVER and then go back to its original position on MOUSE_OUT.

I can do this by creating listeners for every button, but that doesn't seem very efficient so I want to try to consolidate the code, but can't figure out how.

My code for the listener:



and



the error I get when I hover a button:



I'm not sure what the error is telling me. Tracing the e.currentTarget I see [object btnColumn] so I know I'm close.

What am I missing?

Thanks!

:grimey

Heya, you can just use the target property:

navContainer.setChildIndex(e.target, navContainer.numChildren - 1);

You might have to cast it although I don't think you'll have to, try it the above way first then if that doesn't work try casting it:

navContainer.setChildIndex(e.target as DisplayObject, navContainer.numChildren - 1);

or:

navContainer.setChildIndex(DisplayObject(e.target), navContainer.numChildren - 1);

Whichever floats ya boat :¬)

Thanks, Tann!

Your first method floats my boat best!

Why didn't my method work? What's the difference between e.currentTarget and e.target?

:grimey

I take it back. It's not working. Your first solution produce the same error. The other two give me this:



Since it's been giving me the "implicit coercion" error, I got to thinking it didn't like the movieClips I was importing from the library at runtime so I convert them to sprites with this:



It works, but I still don't understand e.target vs e.currentTarget.

Did you import DisplayObject?

import flash.display.DisplayObject;

I tried to write a condensed explanation about target vs currentTarget but failed, it was either too simplified or came across wrong. These two sources explain it although I'm not sure how clear they are, here and here.

Hm...that's probably where I went wrong.

And thanks for the info!

:grimey