The event listener attached to the Application is not reacting to the event fired from your custom class because your custom class instance is not attached to the Application DisplayList. It is just an object in memory. If you want the event from your custom class instance to bubble up to the Application, you need to add it to the Application's DisplayList.
The DisplayList is typically used for UI components, i.e. when you click a button in the UI, it fires an event and that event propagates up the display list. However, you can add non-UI components to it too. Your custom class just needs to extend the DisplayObject class (I think - it should have extended EventDispatcher already). You also need to add the instance to the Application object by using the addChild method on the Application object, e.g. application.addChild(myclass); If you declare the custom class instance in MXML, it is automatically added to the Application object (well, technically, only if it is a loaded component in the UI). 2009/1/12 biosmonkey <[email protected]>: > > The dispatched event needs to be heard by any component, anywhere, by > setting an event listener for it at the application level. So > bubbling up to the app is critical. > > > --- In [email protected], "Manish Jethani" > <manish.jeth...@...> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:42 AM, biosmonkey <biosmon...@...> wrote: >> >> > In my main app, I instantiate an instance of this class. I also >> > create an event listener at the application level. >> > >> > Here's the problem: >> > >> > * If I use dispatchEvent(...) inside MyClass, the event listener in >> > the main app never fires (the custom event *is* set to bubble) >> >> To add to Josh's response, I would say the best way to do this is to >> listen on the object itself. >> >> obj = new MyClass(); >> obj.addEventListener(...); >> >> The events don't have to be bubbling then. >> >> Manish >> > > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Alternative FAQ location: > https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847 > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups Links > > > >
