Actionscript 3 - Making one MovieClip the hitArea of another

Question

Suppose I have a rectangle whose instance name is

rectangle

and suppose I have a square right beside the rectangle and the squares instance name is

square

. Now, I want the rectangle to hitArea to be it's own area as well as the square's area. So, if I have these three event listeners:

rectangle.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, rectangleClick);   
rectangle.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, rectangleHover);  
rectangle.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, rectangleOut); 

How do I make it so that when I hover over, hover out of and click the rectangle OR square, the rectangle event listeners get called?

Note: the event listeners have

event.target

and

event.currentTarget

so I cannot do a simple

square.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, rectangleClick);

since I need the rectangle to be the

event.target

.

Answer 1

Since your listeners are referencing the Rectangle only, just identify it by its instance name and NOT event.target. Now you can apply the same addEventListner() method to the Square, and the Rectangle will be acted upon, in either case, by the listener function.