actionscript 3 event.target

Question

I have a movie clip named button1 and in this movie clip there is a dynamic text named txt

 public function mouse_down(event:MouseEvent)
      {
      if(event.target==button1)
      {
      ...//this only recognizes when i click the button without intersecting the dynamic text area
      }
      if(event.target==button1||event.target==button1.txt)
      {
      ...//this works
      }

i would like to know why it dosen't recognize clicks made in the area that contains the dynamic click if i don't specify it, because txt is part of button1, so normally i would only need to check if the target is button1 but it dosen't work:i also have to check if the target is button1.txt

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

event.target always points to the object the event originated from, even if it is nested in the object you added the listener to. Use event.currentTarget instead.

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