Q: how to create custom events

[baEc]

ok ive been all through the manual again trying to figure this out but i
just cant find it.
how can i generate my own custom event ?
for example : movie clip A moves to the left and when it gets to the left
border of the screen i want it to trigger an event call
I-Got-To-The-Left-Most-Side-Of-The-Screen [or - IGTTLMSOTS ;)].
thx for any help on this

[Uritsukidoji]

Flash MX 2004 documentation:

Did you see these pages?:
Creating events:
[url]http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main/05_cre34.htm[/url]

Dispatching events:
[url]http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main/05_cre44.htm[/url]

Handling events:
[url]http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main/05_cre41.htm[/url]

Assuming you already have you custom class, make you class match this:

import mx.events.UIEvent;
import mx.core.UIObject;

[Event("IGTTLMSOTS")]
class myClass extends UIObject {
.... // other declarations
function reachLeft(){
dispatchEvent ({type:"IGTTLMSOTS", arg1, arg2 });
}
.... // other declarations
}

good luck


baEc wrote:

> ok ive been all through the manual again trying to figure this out but i
> just cant find it.
> how can i generate my own custom event ?
> for example : movie clip A moves to the left and when it gets to the left
> border of the screen i want it to trigger an event call
> I-Got-To-The-Left-Most-Side-Of-The-Screen [or - IGTTLMSOTS ;)].
> thx for any help on this
>
>

[baEc]

hey Uritsukidoji, thx for your help. i dont know much about component
creation. i was trying to avoid that subject but maybe i will have to go
into it after all. is extending UIObject the only way i can define my own
events ? i think in flash mx [not 2004] you could do something like this -

Counter = function(max){
this.max = max;
this.value = 0;
}
Counter.prototype.increment = function(){
++this.value;
if (this.counter == this.max){
this.onMax(); // here's the new event call
this.counter = 0;
}
}

i got this example somewhere but im not really sure where anymore and
whether it still would work with the new flash ??