Flex: Stop Event Propogation

Stopping propagation

During any phase, you can stop the traversal of the display list by calling one of the following methods on the Event object:

• stopPropagation()
• stopImmediatePropagation()

You can call either the event's stopPropagation() method or the stopImmediatePropagation() method to prevent an Event object from continuing on its way through the event flow. The two methods are nearly identical and differ only in whether the current node's remaining event listeners are allowed to execute. The stopPropagation() method prevents the Event object from moving on to the next node, but only after any other event listeners on the current node are allowed to execute.

The stopImmediatePropagation() method also prevents the Event objects from moving on to the next node, but it does not allow any other event listeners on the current node to execute.

(source: Adobe Livedocs)