ActionScript 3.0 :: Proper Syntax When Dispatching A Custom Event
Jul 7, 2009
i have a class where I'm setting a simple custom event name as a static const such as:
Code:
public static const ON_OVER:String = "HotSpot_ON_OVER";
When an instance is created in parent container object, I'm simply using:
Code:
theInstance.addEventListener(HotSpot.ON_OVER, hsOverHandler);
Within the HotSpot class, when I dispatch that event - both of the following work, but is one preferred or more proper than the other?
Code:
dispatchEvent(new Event(HotSpot.ON_OVER));
//or
dispatchEvent(new Event(ON_OVER));
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TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert events::MapEvent@a74ab51 to flash.events.MouseEvent.
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May be my title doesn't clearly reflect to what I am saying. Let me demonstrate with following example
[Code]....
Instead of doing this type of event listening,is there a way, by which the final class can listen to "firstDispatch" event without going through its object as shown above
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ActionScript Code:
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[code]......
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Can anyone please explain me why the dispatched event is not captured in this code?
The idea here was to notify all instances of a class when you click on one of them
[Code]...
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Code:
stage.dispatchEvent(new Event('nextClip'));
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Code:
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Instead of doing this type of event listening,is there a way, by which the final class can listen to "firstDispatch" event without going through its object as shown above
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PHP Code:
package
{
import flash.display.*;[code]....
So I can call the public method of either class from the other class.However, I am now trying to understand custom events and dispatching them with parameters.which uses a custom event class.This works fine when the dispatchevent and listener are both in the viewer class, but when the dispatchevent is in the viewer class, and the listener is in the menu class I can't get it to work.I suppose for my purposes I don't really need to use the custom event class, I can just call the respective classes' public functions but I just wanted to try and understand how it works.Here's the pared down version of menu class...
PHP Code:
package classes {
import flash.display.*;
//some other imports[code].........
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I am developing a project where ClassA creates the instances of ClassB , ClassC and ClassD and adds the eventsDispatcher with them. ClassB and ClassC are able to dispatch the events back to ClassA which is fine. But ClassD is not dispatching the event. It only dispatch the event only when I call the dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.Complete)) function after giving 1 Second delay.
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