That's a dangerous practice. It prevents you from using weak event listeners -- because the only reference to your delegate function object is the event listener itself, a weakly-referenced listener will be garbage collected. Now have to manually remove your listener to make sure your object is garbage collected -- but the only way to remove event listeners is to pass the removeEventListener function a reference to the function you want to remove... but you don't have that reference!
If it's a one-time event, you can have the listener remove itself. Your delegate function object can pass a reference to itself (using arguments.callee) in to the "real" event listener function, which you can use to remove the listener. In any other case, you'll have to build a separate data structure (usually a Dictionary of Objects -> Functions) to keep a reference available to your code. On 3/12/08, EECOLOR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we ever he need to pass extra arguments to the handler we use a delegate > class to pass them. Usage: > > obj.addEventListener(Event.TYPE, Delegate.create(this, _handler, arg1, > arg2)); > > private function _handler(e:Event, arg1:Object, arg2:Object):void > { > > }; > > I added our delegate class as an attachment. > > Note that for class methods the scope (first argument of the create method) > has no influence. > > > Greetz Erik > > > > On 3/12/08, Helmut Granda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Bob, > > > > Thanks for the comment, that is the route that started working on after > > posting the question and the only issue I am having is dispatching the > > custom event when the timer has been reached, I did a soft search for > > samples of extending the Timer Class with custom TimerEvents but wasnt > > able > > to find any.... would you happen to know where I could find more info? > > > > Thanks!! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > -- Cory Petosky : Lead Developer : PUNY 1618 Central Ave NE Suite 130 Minneapolis, MN 55413 Office: 612.216.3924 Mobile: 240.422.9652 Fax: 612.605.9216 http://www.punyentertainment.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders