Jeremy,
That did the trick, thanks a lot!
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Jeremy Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Surely it can.
>
> You can create a MyEvent class which extends Event then add in as many
> properties you want (something like "data"), there's a fine example
in the
> manual about creating custom event.
>
> When you need to broadcast event from one component to another, just
use:
>
> comp.dispatchEvent( MyEvent("someEvent", myDataObject) );
>
> this should do the trick.
>
>
> Jeremy.
>
> On 7/22/06, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I have a Flex app with two custom components. What is the best way
> > for these two components to talk to each other. Pass a reference of
> > one component to the other, databinding, or event broadcast to
each other?
> >
> > I basically have one component that is a list of ID/Names, when I
> > double click, I want the other component to get the ID and retrieve
> > the extended data from the DB. My data is not stored in the
> > main.mxml application. I know in Flash you would use event
> > listeners, but can the event listeners in Flex also send data? The
> > examples I have seen broadcast a message, but they don't seem to send
> > data like Flash dispatch events would.
> >
> > - Michael
> >
> >
> >
>
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