MouseEnabled “not working” in flash as3. Solved

Spent half the night fighting that issue, I wanted to disable mouse clicks for TextFields on my gui HUD panel. So that I could click units beneath those text fields.

tf.mouseEnabled = false;//didnt work for me as well as
tf_parent.mouseEnabled = false;//and
tf_parent.mouseChildren = false;

the problem was that the panel sprite (parent of text fields) was intercepting mouse clicks..

The receipt:
– use this code to monitor who’s receiving the click

import flash.utils.getQualifiedClassName;

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);
function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
trace(“clicktarget: “, event.target.name, getQualifiedClassName(event.target));
}

– and

tf.mouseEnabled = false;
tf_parent.mouseEnabled = false;

//and remove the hitArea for parent!!!!
tf_parent.hitArea = new Sprite();
tf_parent.hitArea.mouseEnabled = false;

Hope this helps somebody!