What is the difference between MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP and MouseEvent.CLICK?

Thanks!

I only read the specific MouseEvent pages... little did I know I should've been reading the InteractiveObject help pages.

Flash's help system has become truly awful.

At least in previous versions, if you knew what to type in the "Search" field you would find what you were looking for with examples on how to use it. Now, even with the proper search term, all you'll get is a bunch of keyword definitions and very few practical examples.

click is a more specific event: 'click' represents a mouseDown followed by a mouseUp for the same target object:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/flash/display/InteractiveObject.html#event:click

excerpt for the click event:

"Dispatched when a user presses and releases the main button of the user's   pointing device over the same InteractiveObject. For a click event to occur, it must always follow this series of   events in the order of occurrence: mouseDown event, then mouseUp. The target object   must be identical for both of these events; otherwise the click event does not   occur. Any number of other mouse events can occur at any time between the   mouseDown or mouseUp events; the click event   still occurs."

This means you can mouseDown on an object, hold the mouse down, mouse Out, mouse Over again and then mouse Up at which point a click event will happen (for example)