# Detecting if an event has "stopped propagating" or been "cancelled"

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-if-an-event-has-stopped-propagating-or-been-cancelled/317360>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 17, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-if-an-event-has-stopped-propagating-or-been-cancelled/317360 "2010-12-17T17:18:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![IQAndreas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f08c70/32.png) [@IQAndreas](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/IQAndreas)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-if-an-event-has-stopped-propagating-or-been-cancelled/317360/1 "2010-12-17T17:18:40Z")

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If someone hands you a simple event, is there any way of telling if the event has been cancelled or if the `stopPropagation()` or `stopImmediatePropagation()` commands have been run yet?

Or is all that handled and kept track of internally by the AS3 event system?