either way works... its a 6 of one half a dozen of another type situation so you could say
dispatchEvent(Event.COMPLETE) from your XMLLoader class and put the data into a public var that your class listening can access. Or you could make a custom event like this dispatchEvent(new XMLEvent(XMLEvent.DATA_LOADED, loader.data)); where you send in the data into a custom event u make hope this makes sense greg On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:38 AM, David Hunter <davehunte...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > thanks Henrik, > are you saying that i need to create a custom event class and dispatch an > event from that class? otherwise how else could i attach the data to a > dispatched event? > or do you mean to dispatch an existing event type so when fired the > DocumentClass will go into the XMLLoaderClass and grab a public var > containing the data? > i have never dispatched events before, so i guess i'll have to look into > it. > i have posted my two classes on pastebin to look at: > http://pastebin.com/m4ba8e745 > cheers > > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:58:45 +0100 > > From: he...@henke37.cjb.net > > To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] OOP and XML > > > > Dispatch an event when the data is ready and have the main code listen > > for the event. > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Got more than one Hotmail account? Save time by linking them together > > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/186394591/direct/01/_______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders