Hi Wally,Looking at your question in blue, the simple solution is from your parent app, reference a function in your swf that will set the flag...remember it has to be public for the app to be able to reference it.
(parent document)
var childSWF:SWFLoader = new SWFLoader();
parentDoc.addChild(childSWF);
private function onDelete(event:MouseClick):void
{
childSWF.setDeleteFlag();
}
(child swf)
private var deleteFlag:Boolean = false;
public function setDeleteFlag():void
{
deleteFlag = true;
}
HTH,
Adrian
Wally Kolcz wrote:
I thought the child of the parent (main application) would be *up* the chain. The child has to listen and react to the event dispatched by the main application."I've got a parent application with a 'delete' button. When it's clicked, I want to set a flag in a child swf, which is loaded via SWF loader. "------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From*: "Tracy Spratt" <[email protected]> *Sent*: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:16 AM *To*: [email protected] *Subject*: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Events and Child SWFsYou are misunderstanding how listeners work. You add the listener to the component that **dispatches** the event, and have it call a method where you want the action to take place."parent" just goes up one component. The surest way to do this is to use Application.application.addEventListener().A bubbling event will hot help you going in this direction (down to the child)Tracy Spratt Lariat Services Flex development bandwidth available ------------------------------------------------------------------------*From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *stldvd*Sent:* Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:02 PM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* [flexcoders] Re: Events and Child SWFsHi Steve, But I need the child swf to react, not the parent. So I think the listener has to be in the child, not the parent. David--- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Steve Mathews <happy...@...> wrote:> > You are assigning the listener to the wrong object. "this" is your child > swf, but it is the parent that dispatches the event. Depending on the rest > of the app "this.parent" might work. So: > this.parent.addEventListener("inDeleteMode", deleteModeHandler); > > Steve > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:44 AM, stldvd <stl...@...> wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > I've got a parent application with a 'delete' button. When it's > > clicked, I want to set a flag in a child swf, which is loaded via SWF > > loader. > > > > So in the parent app on the button's click event I'm dispatching an event: > > > > dispatchEvent(new Event("inDeleteMode")); > > > > In the child SWF's init function I've got this: > > > > this.addEventListener("inDeleteMode", deleteModeHandler); > > > > And then the deleteModeHandler function (stubbed in for testing): > > > > private function deleteModeHandler():Boolean > > { > > Alert.show("got it!"); > > return true; > > } > > > > It ain't working. Can someone see what I'm doing wrong? > > > > Thanks, > > > > David > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > -- > > Flexcoders Mailing List> > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt <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 <https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=942dbdc8-e469-446f-b4cf-1e62079f6847>> > Search Archives:> > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo <http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo>! Groups> > Links > > > > > > > > >
