Event Phase problem

programming flash
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Hi Everyone,

I have just discovered the phases of an event.

I have an movieclip (named “up_state”) with a filter applied to it which is nested in a movieclip (named “buttonInstance_1”) which I use as a button.

On a mouse event, it sees “up_state” as the target. I want to target “buttonInstance_1”.

I have read about CAPTURING_PHASE, AT_TARGET, BUBBLING_PHASE, and stopPropagation() but I haven’t figured out how to stop it when it has found “buttonInstance_1”.

Here is a sample of the simple code I’m using, which works unless there is another movieclip nested inside:

[COLOR=Blue]addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, mouseDown_Handler);

function mouseDown_Handler(event:MouseEvent):void{

  var selectedButton = event.target.name;
  switch( selectedButton ){
      case "buttonInstance_1":
        buttonInstance_1**.**gotoAndStop("down");
         break;[/COLOR]

[COLOR=Blue] }
}[/COLOR]