Patrick - Events bubble up the parental chain from the dispatcher. So, your child will not ever catch an event that is dispatched by its parent (bubbling or non). Conversely, parents will always catch bubbling events dispatched by their children. This should also aid you in understanding why registering for the bubbling event out at the application level works. Your dispatching component contains the application in its ancestry (parental chain), so eventually the event will bubble up to that level.
hth Scott djhatrick wrote: > Fellow FlexCoders... > > I am sitting here having a debate on how the event phases works in > AS3. A couple of us have differing opinions of how events bubble, up > or down, inside or out. Maybe I've always been a little confused > "exactly" how bubbling works through the display object hierarchy, can > you clarify?.. > > (from the docs, complete with typo) > > "When an event occurs, it moves through the three phases of the event > flow: the capture phase, which flows from the top of the display list > hierarchy to the node just before the target node; the target phase, > which comprises the target node; and the bubbling phase, which flows > from the node subsequent to the target node back up the display list > hierarchy." > > If I have 100 display Objects on the stage, is the top of the list > 100, or is it 0? And, isn't the word top, a little confusing, because > aren't the displayObjects actually containers? I bet if you work for > adobe, this is on a diagram on paper, would the docs team mind adding > it to the documentation, just because this really needs a visual aid. > > So if you can clear this up, then I will understand how the event > phase works (and more importantly why it does not like in my current > situation). What I want to achieve is have a nested child receive an > events from one of it's parents? Bubbling is not working, which is > odd, because, shouldn't the whole display list be traversed with > bubbling set to true, eventually? > > The solution, I have used several times, is to add the listener to the > application object in Flex, but that seems hackish to me. > > Thanks, for your time, because I really want to remove all doubt in > this area once and for all, since i have been working with as3 for > over 2 years now... > > Patrick > > > -- Scott Melby Founder, Fast Lane Software LLC http://www.fastlanesw.com http://blog.fastlanesw.com
