Hi Nitin, If you want to catch your custom event somewhere and then again want to dispatch then it will first check clone()method availability. If it is not available it will create a new instance of this custom event and then dispatch else it will clone same event.
Check out this blog for all doubts about events and Binding. http://flex4java.blogspot.in/2012/02/flex-events-part-2.html Thanks, Akhil Mittal On Feb 11, 4:19 pm, Sathis Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nitin, > > As per my knowledge clone method will be used to re-broadcast your event. > Consider you are having an application -> Container -> Custom Component -> > UI Control. > So, the event from UI control will be listened in Custom Component. So, you > want the container to have the same event object, you have forward that > event to container like re-dispatching / re-broadcasting. > > This time you should be overridden the clone method in your custom method. > Otherwise you will not able to do that. > > Thanks > Sathis > > > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Nitin Gopi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All > > I am using cairngorm framework in my project. I do not override the > > clone() method in the event class. In fact I never use it whenever I create > > a custom event class. The application works fine. > > But in the flex docs it is written that overriding clone() is necessary > > when we are creating a custom event. Can somebody clarify on this. > > > With Regards, > > Nitin Gopi > > > -- > > You can only depend on yourself. The cavalry ain't coming. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Flex India Community" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/flex_india?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Flex India Community" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/flex_india?hl=en.

