How to address the object that has been Clicked but not the children inside it?

inside a MouseEvent.CLICK function, I usually used e.target to address the movieClip that I clicked, but that only work with a movieClip that doesn't have any children (such as text and other symbols) inside. When it has children insid开发者_开发问答e, the e.target return the child inside the Mc but not the Mc itself. The e.currentTarget didn't work, either; it returned [object MovieClip] but not the instance name of the Mc. Is there anyway I can fix it? thank you.

To get the instance name you would need e.currentTarget.name.

e.target = element that has been clicked.

e.currentTarget = element for that a listener has been registered.

Assuming a red box containing a blue box:

red.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_CLICK, redClick);

If you click the red box (outside the inner blue one):

e.target = red

e.currentTarget = red

If you click the blue box:

e.target = blue

e.currentTarget = red

To prevent your blue box dispatching click events you can disable mouse events for child elements:

red.mouseChildren = false;

If you then click the blue box:

e.target = red

e.currentTarget = red

Set mouseChildren of the intended target to false to stop the events propagating into the MovieClip's children.