eventListener for movieClip inside other movieClip

Question

So I'm building a game that has a playing area which can be scrolled (dragged) with a finger to allow more horizontal play area. I've got buttons on the main stage which allow characters to be created... these used to create the characters on the stage but now with this draggable map, I've used addChild to add them to the gameplay movie clip (which works great, the little animated characters are now 'attached' to the gameplay area).

The problem is that the eventListener which would detect whether these characters are clicked on to control them no longer works. Should I be handling all the eventListeners and functions for these characters on the timeline of the parent movieClip? Or can I control them all through the main stage code using some "my_mc.eventListener..." style coding? I can't seem to get that working.

Thx

Colin Holgate · Accepted Answer

There is target and currentTarget. You can perhaps use currentTarget to see if the user is trying to touch an embedded object.

The complication is that if they intend to drag, but happen to be over an object at the time, that could confused things. There are solutions to that.

First see if currentTarget helps.

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