thanks greg, and nice to know that either way is ok. don't want to start down bad habits already! i've got it working now with a custom event and a little extra help from this as well: http://www.learningactionscript3.com/2008/11/11/passing-arguments-with-events/ cheers.
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:53:18 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] OOP and XML > From: breakfastcof...@gmail.com > To: flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Add your Gmail and Yahoo! Mail email accounts into Hotmail - it's easy http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/186394592/direct/01/_______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
