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Tracy Spratt Lariat Services Flex development bandwidth available ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Wally Kolcz Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:25 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Events and Child SWFs 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" <tspr...@lariatinc.com> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 10:16 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Re: Events and Child SWFs You 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: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of stldvd Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:02 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Events and Child SWFs Hi 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 flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <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 > > > > > > > > >
