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Sep 11, 2008

Event Fast Forward

In some cases you just want to pass along an Event to it's parent. Instead of writing a new relay function like..

myEvtDisptchr.addEventListener(Event.TYPE, _onEvent_handler);
function _onEvent_handler($evt:Event):void{
dispatchEvent($evt.clone());
}

..you can just use the inherited function dispatchEvent:

myEvtDisptchr.addEventListener(Event.TYPE, dispatchEvent);

you can also redirect an Event:

myEvtDisptchr.addEventListener(Event.TYPE, myOtherEvtDisptchr.dispatchEvent);
Simple.
Daniel Scheibel    

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PeterH     Mar 16, 2010
I use this technique to pass events up to parent controllers. I believe it follows the chain-of-responsibility-pattern.

Diane     Nov 27, 2008
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Tink     Sep 12, 2008
When re-dispatching an event manually, you don't need to call the clone method, it is automatically called by the player

i.e. the following do the same thing

dispatchEvent( $evt.clone() );
dispatchEvent( $evt );



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