Too funny Clint - you read my mind on BOTH instances. I first said to myself, that was Flash 8 & Flex 1.5 Syntax (as I found the Flex 2.0 syntax, since my original post last night) And secondly, I also came to the conclusion, that dispatching an Event manually may be overkill, since using a built-in Event and attaching a function to it, will be all I really need for this particular application. Per another post, it was mentioned that I should use the "UpdateComplete" event to cause the text to scroll to the bottom - but I am finding out that this event gets triggered MUCH more often then people may realize. Especially the resize event, in which I use quite a bit with this TitleWindow... For now I am using "Change", and this should hopefully be all I need in order to keep the most recently added text, visible in the control. Again, Thanks for all your help - in addition to everybody else on this list. Take Care, Mike
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clint Modien Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 8:47 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Need some direction from the Pros, on Event Dispatching, and Scoping issues Oops that was Flex 1.5 syntax... should be. traceArea.verticalScrollPosition = traceArea.maxVerticalScrollPosition; It may even be possible to bind it. <mx:TextArea id="traceArea" verticalScrollPosition="{ traceArea.maxVerticalScrollPosition}" /> I understand you want to dispatch a custom event here but it seems like a bit overkill. On 1/6/07, Clint Modien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not to quash your hopes of getting to play with Adobe's really pretty eventing but... traceArea.vPosition = traceArea.maxVPosition; http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders@yahoogroups.com/msg19784.html <http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders@yahoogroups.com/msg19784.html> http://www.flexsearch.org/index.shtml?cx=017079146949617508304%3Ama9avcq 0-ng&q=textarea+scroll+&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A9#768 <http://www.flexsearch.org/index.shtml?cx=017079146949617508304%3Ama9avc q0-ng&q=textarea+scroll+&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A9#768> On 1/5/07, Mike Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, As long as I've been coding Flex Apps (since 1.0 Beta), I've not had the need to Dispatch Events manually, in addition to having the Controls that receive the dispatched Events, reside on a different control (or in a Remote Window)... Could somebody really quick point me in the right direction, for a crash course in Event Dispatching - as well as handling Scoping issues? My present problem I'm trying to tackle is this: I have a draggle Popup TitleWindow which displays Debugging information while my application runs. Using Cairngorm, I keep my Debug Messages in a Text Variable (which obviously resides in my Model). My debug TitleWindow's TextArea control, has it's Text Property bound to the "model.debugMessages" variable. This works beautifully - since when my function kicks off, it appends the new debug information (plus a carriage return) to the TextArea. The problem is, the TextArea doesn't "auto scroll" to the bottom whenever new text is added to the control. Being a programmer interested in debug messages, I am primarily interested in the LATEST debug information. With that said, I am trying to dispatch an Event, to have the TextArea auto scroll to the very bottom, anytime there is new Text added. I know the Property name that I must change, but I need to find out how to make the Dispatched Event, get disseminated across the application, to the Debug Window control. I know I could simple listen for the "change" event locally to the DebugWindow Control, but I need to find out how to trigger this manually. Could any of you help me out regarding this? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer, Mike
