Are you sure that it’s possible to type in the text field, is it a text field of type input? If not, you can easily change it by doing the following:

myTextField.type = TextFieldType.INPUT

If that doesn’t work it might mean that the text field doesn’t have focus, only objects that have focus can dispatch keyboard events. Text fields get focus when you click on them, if you want to you can also set the focus manually:

stage.focus = myTextField;

Why not check what has focus? This might help you:

stage.addEventListener(FocusEvent.FOCUS_IN, checkFocus);
function checkFocus(event:FocusEvent){
trace(’The following object has focus:’);
trace(event.target.name);
trace(’Which is of type:’);
trace(event.target);
}

Or else feel free to contact me on twitter, where I’ll give you my email:
http://twitter.com/DanielApt

Bubbling down would be a huge problem, think of it, if there would be a menu and I clicked on it, then the click event would bubble down to all buttons inside that menu, because of this all the event listeners added to all these buttons would call their handlers, that would be terrible!

Okay, back to your problem: it’s possible to access the girl object from within the boy object. I don’t have a precise idea of what the hierarchical structure is of your project, but let’s say it’s like the following image:
http://twitpic.com/oinsz

I can then access girl from boy with:
root.containerB.girl or with
parent.parent.containerB.girl

Do note that both containers must be added to the stage, and the girl and boy object must be added to the corresponding container before you can start referencing it (or else you’ll get a reference error). Also adding event listeners can be only done when all objects have been added to the stage and their corresponding containers.

If you’d want boy to do something when girl is clicked you could do:

root.containerB.girl.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, boyResponse);

function boyResponse(event:MouseEvent) {
trace(”Don’t touch my girl!”);
}

I hope this helps you and or else you can connect with me via twitter:
http://twitter.com/DanielApt

thanks alot

Really this was very very helpful for me in my Action Script project.

I was in trouble with ENTER_FRAME event type dispatched by different objects. When I set priority asper my needs it is working fine.

Thanks a lot!!