That should work, the second argument in the event constructor makes it bubble.
I don't see your listener defined. You should do that in a function called on creation complete of the application: this.addEventListener(Event.ADDED, onAction) Tracy Spratt Lariat Services Flex development bandwidth available ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of stevepruitt97 Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:08 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] how to bubble and catch events I have the following scenario. I need to catch the click events for either of the two buttons. I tried putting the event handler on the DataGrid, but I'm getting an unresolved error for it. Is this even possible? Thanks in advance for any help. -S <mx:Canvas xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> "> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.collections.ArrayCollection; import mx.controls.dataGridClasses.DataGridItemRenderer; [Bindable] private var _content : ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection(); : : private function onAction(event : Event) : void { trace("got action: " + event.target.id); } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:DataGrid id="templateGrid" width="100%" height="100%" rowCount="5" dataProvider="{_content}" action="onAction(event)"> <mx:columns> <mx:DataGridColumn id="actionColumn" headerText="Action"> <mx:itemRenderer> <mx:Component> <mx:ViewStack> <mx:Metadata> [Event(name = "action", type = "flash.events.Event")] </mx:Metadata> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ private function onAction(event : Event) : void { trace("action: " + event.target.id); var e : Event; if(event.target.id == "adder") e = new Event(Event.ADDED, true); if(event.target.id == "deleter") e = new Event(Event.REMOVED, true); dispatchEvent(e); } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:Text text=""/> <mx:Button id="adder" label="Add" click="onAction(event)"/> <mx:Button id="deleter" label="Delete" click="onAction(event)"/> </mx:ViewStack> </mx:Component> </mx:itemRenderer> </mx:DataGridColumn> <!--mx:DataGridColumn dataField="index" headerText="ID"/-- > <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="title" headerText="Template"/> <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="description" headerText="Description"/> <mx:DataGridColumn dataField="version" headerText="Version"/> </mx:columns> </mx:DataGrid> </mx:Canvas>
