Event Listeners not working w/ Nested MovieClips ?

[pcarini]

I've been driving myself crazy over this one for a while.

I have one MovieClip nested inside another, and I'm having trouble passing events from the nested to the parent. I'm trying to do this all through scripting, as the MC's are actually custom classes which extend MovieClip.

Here's a sample: - MainClip.as:

class MainClip extends MovieClip
{
    var nest:nestedClip;
    function MainClip()
    {
        var obj:Object = new Object;
        obj.click = function(evt)
        {
            trace("clicked");
        }
        nest.addEventListener("click", obj);
    }
}

And, nestedClip.as

import mx.events.EventDispatcher 

class nestedClip extends MovieClip
{
    // Supposedly EventDispatcher adds bodies here
    // when initialize is called
    function dispatchEvent() {};
    function addEventListener() {};
    function removeEventListener() {};  
    
    function nestedClip()
    {
        trace(this);
        mx.events.EventDispatcher.initialize(this);
        
        onPress = function()
        {
            doSomething();
        }
    }
    
    function doSomething()
    {
        trace("doSomething called");
        dispatchEvent({target:this, type:"click"});
    }
}

Basically, it'll trace the name of the nested clip, then "doSomething called", and that's all. I can also call doSomething() from within the parent clip, with the same result.

Thanks in advance for any help,
-C

[Xeef]

hi the problem will by that "MainClip" is initialized at FIRST and then "nestedClip"
and in this order it CAN't work

eg. addEventListener --> and after create "EventDispatcher"

take a look at this mayby it helps a bit :
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s...d.php3?t=58909
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/s...d.php3?t=63789

[pcarini]

So, an object can only pass events to objects created after itself ? Is there some way to embed one movieclip within another and have the embedded clip initialize first ?

Thanks again,

-C

[pcarini]

I figured it out. Thanks much, Xeef ! I didn't realize from the examples I had seen that I can call initialize() from any function I want, not just the constructor.

Thanks again,

-C