It will depend on where and how the listener is declared. CreationComplete fires at different times for different components. As I recall, it is bottom up, so creationComplete for a parent will fire after creationComplete for a child. If the parent creationComplete handler declares the listener, then there would be a problem.
This should only be an issue on start-up. Certainly the listener would be available when the app was ready to receive user input, via ComboBox or button click, as the original poster noticed. Remember that events flow through the DOM. It is possible for a dispatched event to "miss" a component. Pop-ups are a particular problem. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of stldvd Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 4:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: why I can not dispatchEvent with creationComplete? I'm having a similar issue. Event is dispatched (I can step through code and see it) but the event listener is never hearing it, and so the listener function is never being fired. How does one tell if the listener is ready or not? If you add the listener on the creationcomplete or initialize event of an mxml component, it should in theory be ready to fire, for the duration of the app, right? And if you're dispatching a custom event when an item is selected in a combobox, it should certainly work. What could be the reason for a 'deaf' event listener? :) -- David --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Tracy Spratt" <tspr...@...> wrote: > > Perhaps the listener is not yet ready when the canvas creationComplete > fires? > > Tracy > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of markflex2007 > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:08 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] why I can not dispatchEvent with creationComplete? > > > > I try the following code, But I can not dispatchEvent. > > <mx:Canvas xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> > <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> > " > creationComplete="justLogin()" > > <mx:Metadata> > [Event(name="loginEvent", type="flash.events.Event")] > </mx:Metadata> > <mx:Script> > <![CDATA[ > > > private function justLogin():void{ > > dispatchEvent(new Event("loginEvent", false)); > > } > ]]> > </mx:Script> > > </mx:Canvas> > > I can dispatchEvent with button click, please let me know how to > automatic dispatchEvent in page start. > > Thanks > > Mark >
