I made a custom event that's supposed to be fired when a specific function within a class is executed. I listen for this event from within my main script, frame one of my timeline. My CustomEvents.as
package {
import flash.events.Event;
public class CustomEvents extends Event {
public static const PAGE_EMPTY:String = "Page Empty";
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I know I am reaching the CustomEvents constructor, as the trace within it gets printed.The problem is it seems like the event does not reach the function caller?I was unable to find good examples of how to use simple custom events, so this is how I think it's supposed to be.
I'm using Event Propagation in order to change the alpha of each Child on MOUSE_OVER, MOUSE_OUT, and MOUSE_DOWN using... evt.target.alpha On OVER the Child's alpha increases from 0 - 0.5. On OUT it goes from 0.5 - 0. On DOWN it goes to 0.5 and stays there even with a MOUSE_OUT. What I'd like to do is then add a button to the main stage which takes the visibility of all Children back to 0, a basic type of Clear button.
I have one way to do it where I list each Child in a function (all 9!). But can I re-write this so that all Children are effected writing so much code? Ideally I'd like to send a request to find the number of Children (9) and then use this variable to write a function which says (where 'n' is the Instance name of each Child) that n(0-numChildren).alpha = 0
This is NOT duplicate of my earlier post (its is slightly different)But this is similar issue with similar error but its not the same error The error I am getting now is below while dispatching the custom event from my custom component
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert events::MapEvent@a74ab51 to flash.events.MouseEvent. dispatchEvent(new MapEvent(MapEvent.CLICKED_ON_MAP));
Note: The error in my earlier post is giving below error message
Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.events::Event@81ecb79 to com.events.ShopEvent
The difference here are two things, the earlier error is while converting flash event to custom event and now this one is while converting custom event to flash event and secondly, I have no clue why it is trying to convert to the mouseevent where I am just dispatching my custom event with proper listeners.
I hava a custom component and it contains a child icon. If I add a mouse-click event listener to both component(click-listener1) and icon(click-listener2), the event dispatched sequence is click-listener2, then click-listener1. I can understand it. But if I add a custom event to component (listener1), and mouse-click event to icon(listener2), when icon is clicked, the component will dispatch the custom event. In my test, the event dispatched sequence is listener1, then listener2. It doesn't match with event-bubbles rule.
In my opinion The custom event is dispatched in listener2, which triggers listener1. Why event flow sequence is not listener2, listener1?
In component.
icon.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, iconClickHandler); private function iconClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
I have the following situation:I have an event handler, that displays small messages in my application's statusbar.These messages get passes through by dispatching events from custom components.A simple message could be like "HTTP Error" or so.Now, the main event listener, in the main application file, listens to the event dispatched by any custom component,but seems to refuse listening to events dispatched by custom AS classes.Here is my code for the custom event:
is there any way to know which method caused a certain event to be fired? For example, in NetConnection API, you can have: connection.addEventListener(NetStatusEvent.NET_STATUS, netStatusHandler); netStatusHandler is called everytime a Flash Remoting call fails for some reason: how to know which one failed?
i am a bit embarassed to ask this, but i do this so much i have to ask. Occasionally, i need to pass/handle custom events on the fly. Rather than creating a whole custom event class, i will just do something like
Code: myObject.dispatchEvent(new Event('thisCustomEvent')); //and then handle it later
I have a custom Flex 4.5 component (to be used in a List) -
Game.mxml (represents a clickable playing table in a card game): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <s:ItemRenderer [code].......
But I never see the "game clicked: " trace. Does anybody please know why? I'm probably missing something minor, because I can see the "Clicked: 8946" trace.
This is similar to the question asked here. I am dispatching custom event "ShopEvent" but i am getting error "Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.events::Event@81ecb79 to com.events.ShopEvent"Note: Error is thrown from the parent custom component (3rd code snippet), I have added more details thereThis is my custom event. See the first constant, I copy pasted the event name in custom components.
I have a inventory that will hide/show itself whenever the mouse is over it. And inside "inventory", I have a couple of slots that should trace "Pres" whenever I click on them. Problem is, it doesn't. I think it has something to do with my inventory hide/show code because when I took it out, everything worked. Heres the code for the inventory:
I am having trouble using a custom event in flex. I need to dispatch an event from inside two nested components and receive it in the main application file. The basic set up is a main application file importing a custom "gallery" component.
I'm in a Flex Mobile application project. I need to dispatch an event to the lexGlobals.topLevelApplication and it has to contain a custom message. I'm trying to make an object and dispatch it like this:
//create the event Object var receivedObjMsg:Object = new Object(); receivedObjMsg.name = "receivedMessage"; receivedObjMsg.message = messagevarhere;
I'm new to flash and programming in general but am learning it to make games. I'm currently messing around with hit detection and its not to hard to test in the game tick ( fired from onEnterFrame). What I'm wondering is if it would be possible / useful to create a custom event that i can listen for. And make the eventListener hear when a collision happens. Also would this be better or worse for the cpu than testing the collisions of lots of enemies on a screen?
In my AIR application, I try to dispatch a custom event from a class to main window.This class is use to call httpservice. My goal is to send a custom window when the httpservice result is send.[code]...
I am trying to understand event propagation in Flex framework and have a following doubt on it:
Scenario: I have a built-in component DropDownList on change of which I want to create a custom event refreshPreview and want to propagate it to a custom component PictureComponent.
In the custom component's mxml, I have added the Metadata directive as follows to register a refreshPreview event with the compiler
Layout Details: In my main mxml application I have laid out DropDownList and the custom component such that both are siblings (i.e. have a common indirect parent) e.g.
I am seeing that the refreshPreview event is not getting propagated to the custom component.
I doubt this is because the built-in component is a sibling of the target (where the event got generated) and not a parent. how to make refreshPreview event propagate to custom component?
I have not been able to find anything in this matter, but I hardly think I would be the first to try it so maybe I am looking in the wrong places.What I want to do is set up a dynamical access to 20 or so classes. (They are bitmaps in the library that I want to connect with MCs that are implemented in the code.)
I dispatch a custom event from an event dispatcher (following solution Inherited a class from EventDispatcher in Flash but custom event not received) and I add a listener in both dispatcher itself and in main. trace shows that only dispatcher receives this event not main. How to make main also receive the event?[code]
Im trying to get my head round what is needed to catch event "Beep2", using dispatchEvent. The function "DoNext" is not firing, even though Im able to produce a trace result of the dispatchEvent "Beep2 true".
This code uses a CustomEvent Class to Extend the Event Class. Its right on my limit of knowledge so far,
I made a movieclip in flash that dispatches a custom event: MyEvent.THE_TYPE = "the_type"in flex I have: <local:my_flash_mc the_type="do_something()"however, this is not working.in flash, my event bubbles is set to true. everything works fine in flash.in flex I am NOT using:
I'm trying to pass a string variable with custom event and having a problem retrieveing the string when the event is handled. The event fires OK, and I can trace the string in the Event, but it returns "undefined" in the event handler. I'm hoping it's just a typo or something, but it's got me stumped. Below is my Event code and the handler code. [code]
printableInvoice.addEventListener(batchGenerated, printableInvoice_batchGeneratedHandler);Results in this error: 1120: Access of undefined property batchGenerated. I have tried it as FlexEvent.batchGenerated and FlashEvent.batchGenerated.
The MetaData and function that dispatches the even in the component printableInvoice is all right. It I instantiate printableInvoice as an mxml component instead of via action-script it well let put a tag into the mxml line: batchGenerated="someFunction()
I cannot bubble the event because I want to send to another class that is not even a movieclip but a simple class. So I transform previous source code here Is it impossible with Flash to get the Instance Creator ? for
I have searched on the Internet and didn't find any clue on how to do so, any idea ? I don't want flex only flash (my objects are not visual components).
currently i am removing objects when they reach the edge of the screen with
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i understand this does not delete the object? without removing event listeners before removing the object the error log fills up, i believe its due to the stage isnt there after its removed. this makes me think that removechild does not delete the object? i will be creating and deleting many objects during runtime, and i dont want to slow down or use too much memory, how to properly free up the object
I have a custom event that is dispatched when a slider is moved but I receive no event from inherited dispatcher class I created whereas I followed the same syntax as solution for My flash custom event doesn't trigger
