Hello,

I'm struggling on wrapping my mind around the best way to architect a
particular feature i am developing. i have gotten my code to work,
but i want to improve it to make it work using a more stable and
scaleble design.

QUESTION: Now, the problem is when a user rolls the mouse over a
custom MXML compoenent which already has a Move effect applied to it,
I want the MXML component to stop moving. The custom MXML component
has a Label, Text Area,and other components inside of it, but the
mouse roll over Event is caught by the inner most UITextField
component. Inside the Event Handler i have a very hacky way to stop
the Move Effect:

event.target.parent.parent.activeEffects[0].pause();

1. how do i make the custom MXML component catch the event instead of
the UITextField buried deep inside the component

2. how do i reference the MoveEffect for the MXML component without
having to use parent.parent.activeEffects[0] since that is basically
hardcoding.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. For more information on my
situation, i've posted some info:

GOAL: the feature is simple, i have a custome MXML component that has
a Label and a TextArea field inside of a Canvas. My flex application
makes HttpService to my server and returns data which i put into an
ArrayCollection. for each element in the ArrayCollection initialize
a new custom MXML component, I bind it to my custom MXML component
which i initialize and apply an effect to the MXML component so that
the component moves across the screen in various places. The
component should stop moving when a user rolls his/her mouse over the
component.


Thanks for all of your help!

--Deven