How to reference the object listening for event?

[johnlouis]

i want to make a preloading function that could be used by any Loader object I have regardless of name. I'll explain in code



loader1.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Progres sEvent.PROGRESS, loadProgress);
loader2.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Progres sEvent.PROGRESS, loadProgress);
loader1.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.C OMPLETE, loadComplete);
loader2.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.C OMPLETE, loadComplete);


function loadProgress(e:Event):void{
//how do i get a reference of the object that is calling this function?
trace(targetObject.bytesLoaded); //i want to reference the contentLoaderInfo of the Loader currently using this method
}

function loadComplete(e:Event):void{
addChild(targetObject.parent); //not sure if that's logical
}

I hope i'm making sense. :book:

[Anogar]

e.target

:thumb:

[hobbbz]

e.currentTarget

[johnlouis]

thanks guys. is currentTarget the same as target?

EDIT: I tried this code:
ActionScript Code:

function moveBox(e:Event):void{
this.x += 1;
}
box.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, moveBox);




it seems to work fine..
so, which one should I use? this, target, or currentTarget?

[Felixz]

target is pointing to object receiving an event, currentTarget points to object where listener is added.
This difference helps handling bubbling events