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Niche
10-12-2008, 07:39 AM
I would like to pass a mouse event : MouseEvent.CLICK as a parameter.

example:
activateEvent(MouseEvent.Click,clickedEvent);

function activateEvent(event:MouseEvent,destination):void{

mc.addEventListener(event,destination,false,0,true );
};

wvxvw
10-12-2008, 03:59 PM
The code you posted should work (note it's always better to type your arguments, i.e. destination should be typed to Function). What was the problem with it?

fx.barrett
10-12-2008, 04:09 PM
And your activateEvent function is expecting only 1 argument so this: function activateEvent(event:MouseEvent,destination):void is bad... it should be function activateEvent(event:MouseEvent):void

If you want to pass some additional parameters with your event then you should define your own events because the built in events don't handle such stuff.