Hi Jeff. Yes, my event classes do descend from Event. I've also run in debug mode, but you don't get a stack crawl on the 1034. It just says "main thread".
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Jeffry Houser <[email protected]> wrote: > > A single event class being used for multiple events is common within the > Flex Framework; why recommend not re-using the same type? > > Back to the problem: > Are you sure that your event class extends flash.events.Event ? I might > expect odd errors if not. > Have you tried running the code in debug mode to see what is going on; > maybe isolate the line which causing the error. > > Tracy Spratt wrote: > > I would not use the same type name. > > > > Tracy Spratt > Lariat Services > > Flex development bandwidth available > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Richard Rodseth > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:11 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [flexcoders] Another 1034 - events and event types > > > > I have a few MXML components that provide reusable pickers for things like > date ranges. I also nest these components. > Is it OK to reuse event types like "change" and "activate", but associated > with different event classes? > For that matter must an event type always be associated with one class? > > I dispatching non-bubbling events from these components, and set up the > meta-info as expected: > > <mx:Metadata> > > [Event(name="activate",type="com.companyname.appname.event.picker.DateRangePickerEvent")] > </mx:Metadata> > > and use them like this: > > <picker:DateRangePicker > activate="onActivateDateRangePicker(event)" > /> > > I'm occasionally getting an error like this: > > TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert > flash.events::ev...@f4130d1 to > com.companyname.appname.event.picker.DateRangePickerEvent. > > Who would be trying to cast an event to my type? Changing the event type to > "activatePicker" seems to be helping, but I'd rather not have a > proliferation. > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > > > > -- > Jeffry Houser, Technical Entrepreneur > Adobe Community Expert: > http://tinyurl.com/684b5hhttp://www.twitter.com/reboog711 | Phone: > 203-379-0773 > -- > Easy to use Interface Components for Flex > Developershttp://www.flextras.com.com?c=104 > --http://www.theflexshow.comhttp://www.jeffryhouser.com > -- > Part of the DotComIt Brain Trust > > >
