Have the parent re-dispatch the event and listen for it in "listAndshow"
One way to handle issues like this it to have a central bindable data model. A 'singleton" is often used for this. Any component anywhere in the app that needs to react when some data value changes can listen to the model, either by binding for simple values, or by using a changeWatcher if some action needs to occur. The data service call result handler (which can be in the model) will set the appropriate model property, and the child components will respond. Tracy Spratt, Lariat Services, development services available _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] watching and triggering events I think I'm making this more difficult than it should be; or at least I hope I am... I've got a parent viewer called AddContactandReminder.mxml and that has two child objects, AddContact.mxml and ListAndShowContacts.mxml. When I add a new contact in the contact object I trigger an event evtAddedNewContact which is watched in the parent object and triggers the AddContact window to close. I also want it to trigger the ListAndShowContacts.mxml to reload the contacts from the server and display the new list. However, since it's another child object at the same level as the AddContact.mxml I can't see the evtAddedNewContact fire. Is there an easy way to watch this event from ListAndShowContacts? Thanks!
