I'm having trouble with SeriesInterpolate and the effectEnd event. This seems
to
continually dispatch so my callback function is continually being called. I
know that this
effect should only dispatch an event for each target. Has anyone else ran into
this before?
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "g_odds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Oops, drop the playCount++ line.
>
>
> --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "g_odds" <g_odds@> wrote:
> >
> > Righto. So it would appear that the reason for this is that the
> > play() function of the SeriesInterpolateInstance, SeriesSlideInstance
> > and SeriesZoomInstance classes are missing the call to super.play()
> > which would result in the effectStart event being dispatched.
> >
> > If you need this event dispatched then you have to extend the factory
> > and instance class along the lines of this:
> >
> > package
> > {
> > import mx.charts.effects.SeriesInterpolate;
> >
> > public class TSFSeriesInterpolate extends SeriesInterpolate
> > {
> >
> > public function TSFSeriesInterpolate(target:Object = null)
> > {
> > super(target);
> > instanceClass = TSFSeriesInterpolateInstance;
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > import mx.charts.effects.effectClasses.SeriesInterpolateInstance;
> > import mx.events.EffectEvent;
> >
> > class TSFSeriesInterpolateInstance extends SeriesInterpolateInstance
> > {
> > public function TSFSeriesInterpolateInstance(target:Object)
> > {
> > super(target);
> > }
> >
> > override public function play():void
> > {
> > // The next six lines are what occurs in the EffectInstance's
> > // play() function, so because the hierarchy of play() functions
> > // is broken we must do these ourselves.
> > playCount++;
> > dispatchEvent(new EffectEvent(EffectEvent.EFFECT_START,
> > false,false,this));
> > if (target)
> > target.dispatchEvent(new EffectEvent(EffectEvent.EFFECT_START,
> > false, false, this));
> >
> > super.play();
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Graham
> >
> >
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "g_odds" <g_odds@> wrote:
> > >
> > > It would appear that from SeriesEffect downwards in the object
> > > hierarchy, none dispatch an effectStart event when played. I have
> > > checked this by using exactly the same code except for changing the
> > > effect type and only series effects appear to exhibit this behaviour.
> > >
> > > I'm sifting through the source to find out why but so far I haven't
> > > spotted anything.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any help.
> > >
> > > Graham
> > >
> >
>
