Event:getTarget

Available since: Gideros 2011.6
Class: Event

Description

Returns the element on which the event listener was registered. <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> (object) = Event:getTarget() </source>

Return values

Returns (object) Target of event.

Example

<syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> function ExplosionLayer:addExplosion(x, y) local explosion ... explosion = MovieClip.new(timeline) explosion:addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, self.onExplosionComplete, self) ... end

function ExplosionLayer:onExplosionComplete(event) local explosion = event:getTarget() explosion:removeFromParent() self.pool[#self.pool + 1] = explosion end </source>

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• Event
• Event.new
• Event:getTarget
• Event:getType
• Event:stopPropagation

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