Thanks for the example, Tracy. That helped me, too. I was able to move my event listening and dispatching away from the loaded systemManager and onto the loaded application.
LT --- In [email protected], "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is a complete example: > > http://www.cflex.net/showFileDetails.cfm?ObjectID=690 > > > > Tracy > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of lagos_tout > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 4:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: SWFLoader: access its contents right away > > > > Wow, I messed up on that. > > Instead of -- > > > //broadcast events that parent.swf can respond to. > > systemManager.dispatch(new Event("myChild")); > > use -- > > //broadcast events that parent.swf can respond to. > systemManager.dispatch(new Event("myEventName")); > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > , "lagos_tout" <lagos.tout@> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I recently did something like this. But it was more complicated > because > > I was loading a swf from a different domain from it's parent. I needed > > to attach an event handler to the swf when SWFLoader was done loading. > > > Then at some point, the loaded swf would broadcast an event, and the > > parent swf would be able to respond. > > > > Contrary to what the last poster said, I think you should consider > > listening for the Event.INIT, not Event.Complete broadcast by your > > SWFLoader. To determine which one you need, check descriptions of > these > > two events in the Flex 3 Language Reference. Here's the meat of it: > > > > INIT is broadcast when the properties and methods of a loaded SWF file > > are accessible. > > COMPLETE is broadcast when content loading is complete. > > > > So, if you need to be able to access child movie clips, I'd say use > > INIT. > > > > Here's some code. Please note that both parent and child are Flex > > applications, yielding parent.swf and child.swf. > > > > In parent.swf: > > > > mySwfLoader:SWFLoader = new SWFLoader(); > > mySwfLoader.addEventListener(Event.INIT, onInit); > > function onInit(event:Event):void > > { > > mySwfLoader.content.addEventListener("myEventName", > > onMyEventHandler); > > } > > function onMyEventHandler(event:Event):void > > { > > //do something > > } > > > > In child.swf: > > > > //broadcast events that parent.swf can respond to. > > systemManager.dispatch(new Event("myChild")); > > > > I found that when loading a Flex generated child.swf, > > mySwfLoader.content is a reference to the child.swf's systemManager > > property. So in order to broadcast events from my loaded swf, you > > needed to dispatch the event using the child application's > systemManager > > property. Hence the last line of code. > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > LT > > > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , Alex Harui <aharui@> wrote: > > > > > > The "complete" event tells you when the load is complete. All > > SWFLoader loads from the network are asynchronous. You'll always have > > to wait to access the data > > > > > > From: [email protected] > <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > ] > > On Behalf Of Ignasi Lirio > > > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:36 PM > > > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > Subject: [flexcoders] SWFLoader: access its contents right away > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am new in this group, so hello to everyone :-) > > > > > > I want to discuss here about SWFLoader component in Flex 3, and how > to > > > access their contents... programatically. > > > > > > Just for short: > > > > > > I have an existing, empty SWFLoader object in my MXML code. > > > > > > After some time, I just want to populate it using SWFLoader.load() > > > method with an external SWF movie, that has child MovieClips inside. > > > > > > Right after call the .load() method, I am insterested (in the same > > > function) to access its children to move positions, etc. So, if I do > > > something like: > > > > > > var myloader:SWFLoader= this.swfload; > > > > > > and then > > > > > > myloader.load("shelf2.swf"); > > > > > > and then > > > > > > myloader.content["s2"].alpha=0.3; > > > > > > It does not work at all. I tried myloader.addEventListener(...) with > > > several events, does not work. > > > > > > The only way was to put that "myloader.content["s2"].alpha..." > inside > > > a setTimeout function, to allow SWFLoader to take some time to load. > > > But you agree with me that this is so dirty. > > > > > > any ideas? Thanks to everyone! > > > > > >
