Re: [flexcoders] Need some direction from the Pros, on Event Dispatching, and Scoping issues

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

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

RE: [flexcoders] Need some direction from the Pros, on Event Dispatching, and Scoping issues

Thanks Clint, for those links - The first link, has a section which explains the invalidation stuff - which was really informative. I love reading stuff like this, as it really gives better insight into how things work, as well as what's going through the minds of the Flex engineers, while

RE: [flexcoders] Need some direction from the Pros, on Event Dispatching, and Scoping issues

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