> As I’m writing this I’m realizing that I can probably not make these classes > implement IEventDispatcher. I’ll see how that goes…
Bah. It creates an EventDispatcher from new EventDispatcher(this). It also uses hasEventListener and willTrigger which FlexJS both do not support… :-( > On Mar 6, 2017, at 4:53 PM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I’m again struggling with the fact that FlexJS events have weird inheritance. > > I’m working on a TLF port to FlexJS (and no, I have no idea when I’ll be able > to donate the results. I hope to be able to donate it in some form, but I > don’t know when I’ll be in a position to do that.) Either way, TLF has quite > a bit of event redirection and it implements a number of classes which > implement IEventDispatcher, but are not EventDispatchers themselves. > dispatchEvent proxies the event to a “real” event dispatcher. > > When I try to compile the code, I get the following error: > > [compc] > /Users/harbs/Documents/git/PrintUI/printui-flexjs/text_engine/frameworks/tlf/src/org/apache/flex/textLayout/elements/LinkElement.as(205): > col: 19 Error: interface method dispatchEvent in interface IEventDispatcher > is implemented with an incompatible signature in class LinkElement > [compc] > [compc] public function dispatchEvent(evt:Event):Boolean > [compc] ^ > [compc] > [compc] > /Users/harbs/Documents/git/PrintUI/printui-flexjs/text_engine/frameworks/tlf/src/org/apache/flex/textLayout/elements/TextFlow.as(880): > col: 19 Error: interface method dispatchEvent in interface IEventDispatcher > is implemented with an incompatible signature in class TextFlow > [compc] > [compc] public function dispatchEvent(event:Event):Boolean > > which I guess makes sense because it’s trying to dispatch a Flex event > instead of a Flash one. I really wish Flex events were “clean” without the > baggage of being subclassed from platform specific dispatchers… :-( > > As I’m writing this I’m realizing that I can probably not make these classes > implement IEventDispatcher. I’ll see how that goes… > > Harbs
