Comments on: As3 event management

By: mike

mike — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:23:54 +0000

Hey – I came across this, but couldn’t get it to work. Eventually I came up with this code, though, which is a bit simpler and does what I want it to:

//I add the stage listener just before any of my button listeners

stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, initfunction)
function initfunction(e:Event):void{
buttonName.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.CLICK,true));
stage.removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, initfunction);
}

//I remove the event listener in its own function – if it just needs to click, then it can go away as soon as it comes in

By: jeff

jeff — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:24:21 +0000

Your correct. However it should be noted that then your target will be null. Thus if you you perform an action on the button onclick then this ability will be lost by passing null

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:56:34 +0000

Another way to execute an event listener function, without the originally intended event, is to pass in null. You can just replace line 12 above with functiontorun(null); Nice blog, thanks!