Example 1.
This is when I want to bind activity to one particular event of one display object:

btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, tempfn)
function tempfn(e:Event):void
{
	trace('btn title')
}

Example 2.

If you want to do this for more than one object..

Use a literal function (I think that’s the right term). Any road, in the example below, when the user clicks on ‘btn’, or ‘btn2′, the statements within the function literal tempfn - declared as the function for the event - will fire.

btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function tempfn(e:Event):void{ trace('btn title') } )
btn2.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function tempfn(e:Event):void{ trace('btn2 title') } )

So if you replace the body of tempfn with functions to update a text field or load an image and pass params to these functions like the example below…you have a way of getting events to do bespoke things quickly.

btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, function tempfn(e:Event):void{ updateTf('btn title'), loadImage('imageName.jpg') } )

regBtn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.EXTENDED_CLICK, onReg, “Claire”, false, 0, true);

This apppoach might be a lot of work behind the scenes to setup but thereafter, I could use the EXTENDED_CLICK event whenever I have a button.

I did, and now it works.

Thanks anyway, for reading all this shit.

Yours humbled
Sigmund

I have a main.swf which loads a numberOne.swf when I click a button. The numberOne.swf in turn loads a numerOneB.swf when the appropriate button is clicked. When I click a button in numberOneB the SWFAddress value is set to for instance “/NumberOne?page=video”. The listener for the SWFAddresssEvent.CHANGE in main.swf trigger a function that checks the value of SWFAddress. If the value is “/NumberOne?page=video” it dispatches an event using my new custom class from main.swf with an argument (a string).

I also have a listener in the constructor in the document class of numberOne.swf which listens for dispatches through my custom event class and then trigger a function. This function currently just writes to a Textfield in main.swf but it is meant to load the appropriate movieClips or .swf’s depending on which argument is passed.

The custom class seem to be set up correctly; I get no errors, and it works as expected if i put the listener and its function inside main.swf. But I get no action when I put the listener inside numberOne.swf. I get the correct SWFAddress-value passed from numberOne.swf to main.swf, but I don’t get the argument from the custom event class.

Can you see any obvious fault in this outline. The whole thing is laid out on http://nrksuper.no/superstore/flashfiles/sigtest/dyplenking/ so you can see that it works (somehow) if you like. The file names are in Norwegian so they don’t totally correspond with the names I’ve used above.

I hope this isn’t taking too much of your time

Kind regards
Sigmund Øvrum

Regarding my May 21st, 2009 comment (see above); after much thrashing about, I’ve come to the conclusion that trying to recreate my old AS2 OOP architecture was the wrong approach–specifically, how I pass events and data (arrays & objects, mostly) between classes. Better is to let AS3 do its thing in its own way. The better solution I’ve come to is to simply use getters & setters in conjunction with standard and custom events. Learning both AS3 and OOP at the same time has been a challenge but, now well along, I find it easier than I expected (hindsight seems to work that way). Your book, and your additional postings here, have provided me with a great AS3 jumpstart and continued resource without which I would not be where I am today.

Thanks again.