Hey - no prob! Actually, what the 2 other guys contributed, helped ME out quite a bit too.
That's what I love about this list - you can learn so much about so many things - and because there are so many different people here, each person explains things in their own way. You picked the BEST Flash list - hands down - so you are fortunate. It's not always easy to find the best list, when you are searching around for a mailing list to join. Sometimes, hearing the same answer, explained from different people, really helps you understand in a much better way. So I'd like to say Thank You too - as you all helped me solidify my understanding of this topic as well. Take Care everybody! Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Cardenas Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:27 PM To: Flashcoders mailing list Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Need help understanding EventDispatcher Thanks Mike, That does help. I get scope - although admittedly I should pay a little more attention to it... :-) And I wasn't familiar with the Delegate class - clearly something I need to read about. -dc ------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 917-750-6398 AIM: dcardena ------------------------------------------------------- On Apr 12, 2006, at 9:45 PM, Mike Anderson wrote: > Yes, sorry I should have mentioned that too - (about getting rid of > extending the MovieClip). > > I assumed you were purposely extending the MovieClip, but I should > have helped more and told you to get rid of that portion, and just > make a plain vanilla class file. It would have made all the other > stuff you were putting in there, much more pertinent - since you would > no longer have any functionality inherited from another class, you > would have to build all the Event Broadcasting in manually.. > > For the Delegate question, the reason for that, is if you have a > MovieClip or "whatever it is" deeply nested within the movie, and you > start dispatching Events, sometimes Flash gets confused as to where to > send the events. That's what they refer to as "Scope". > > As you can already see, with the _level0, etc. you can have lots of > levels in a Movie - it keeps things organized, and creates kind of a > stacking order - and it even affects things visually - like something > visually appearing beneath something else, if it resides on a lower > level. > > The Delegate stuff, ensures that the Event you are broadcasting, > actually gets to the Object that's supposed to be receiving it - and > not somewhere else. That was a really great thing, when they came out > with it a couple years ago. I am pretty rusty right now with writing > code, etc. but at the time it really fixed a lot of problems with > scope. > > With AS3, I guess that's all fixed - so you can dispatch events to > your hearts content, and Flash takes care of the rest, without having > to use the Delegate stuff. > > I am just a mediocre coder, so I am sure lots of other people will > help with answering this question for you. > > Hope this help a little bit, and good luck :) > > Mike > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Johannes Nel > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 7:57 PM > To: Flashcoders mailing list > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Need help understanding EventDispatcher > > you add and use delegate to solve scoping issues. > > On 4/12/06, Johannes Nel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> ok sorry, you are extending movieclip. i thought for soem reason you >> were not. there is no reason for you to be extending movieclip, so >> don't >> >> once you have gotten rid of the inheritance then it should work. the >> reason the onPress function works is due to the fact that you are >> extending movieclip, and then you assign a different refrence for >> that > function. >> >> anyway i hope you understand what i am tryimg to say >> >> > > > -- > j:pn > http://www.lennel.org > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com > _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
