Point taken about the button versus the stage. But I wonder if your solution is the most elegant. From what I've read, the event hierarchy (capture, target, bubbling) should be able to handle this for me.
Stepping through the array makes sense if I have to, but I don't think I have to. --- In [email protected], "Gordon Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I assume I'm going to capture a MouseEvent.CLICK on the stage > > You would do that only if you want to be able to click anywhere on the > stage. > > If you are only clicking a Button, just put a click handler on the > Button and have it loop over an array containing the balls you've > created and call a method on each one: > > <mx:Script> > > private function b_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void > { > var n:int = balls.length; > for (var i:int = 0; i < n; i++) > { > Ball(balls[i]).doSomething(); > } > } > > </mx:Script> > > <mx:Button id="b" click="b_clickHandler(event)"/> > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of jrag0n > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:59 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Send event to all objects? > > > > I get the sense this is very easy, but I haven't been able to make it > work yet. > > When I click a button, a ball is sent out on the screen and starts > moving randomly. I want to > press a button and have every ball on stage do something, like all get > twice as large, or all > turn white or something. > > I assume I'm going to capture a MouseEvent.CLICK on the stage, which > then targets all the > balls I've dynamically created, and then each ball can respond > accordingly. But I'm stuck. Any > thoughts? >
