ActionScript 3.0 :: Defining Target When Typecasting Mouse Events?
Jul 30, 2009
Is it possible to define the target of a MouseOver event being sent to a method if it is being triggered by code and not an actual mouse event? By typecasting a string as a mouse event the receiving function is sent an acceptable value required by it to run. It will then go about executing it's tasks but if it has references to the target property an error is thrown because only the event type was sent to the function and none of it's properties.
ActionScript Code:
private function myFunction(event:MouseEvent):void {
trace(event.target.name);
} myFunction(new MouseEvent("mouseOver"));
Resulting error:
Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
Is there a way to send the target information along with the event when triggering a method in this way?
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