Losing mouse_up after reparent

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Hey.

This might be a clear case but i’m stumped as to how to fix it:

public function setupDragDrop(asset:MovieClip) {
    asset.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, function(e:MouseEvent) {
        trace("1");
        dd_container_mc.addChild(e.target);
        e.target.startDrag();
    });

    asset.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, function(e:MouseEvent) {
        trace("2");
        e.target.stopDrag();
    });
}

so basically just a function to add drag and drop functionality to an asset, note that when you mouse_down on the asset it takes it from where-ever it is and moves it to a container that sits at the top level in front of everything else.

This however appears to ‘disable’ the mouse_up event, which is never called in this case. If i remove the re-parenting then the mouse_up is called fine.

Can anyone explain why this is happening? Does re-parenting mean that an object will lose its event handlers?

Hope someone can help.

Cheers

Toby