Question

Lets say I want a mouse click event listener to trace (console print) the x coordinate of a sprite clicked. this is what Ive got, which is wrong.

    public function field()
    {
        ....
        //nodes is an array containing node sprite objects
        for(i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++){  
            var single_node:Node;
            single_node = nodes[i];             
            single_node.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onNodeClick)
        }
        ... 

    }

private function onNodeClick(e:MouseEvent):void{
    trace(this.x); // should output single_node object x coordinate 
}

I believe this.x is referring to the classes property x, however i would like to refer to the single_node object.
currently console is outputting 0, regardless of what sprite i click.

Answer 1

Use e.target.x

Event has a target property which represents the object you’ve added an event listener to.

A side note though, I’d be more inclined to have the listeners set up in your own Node class and trace the x property from there.