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Anonymous
May 1, 2009
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Need an Event Reference

  • May 1, 2009
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Actionscript 3 - now that it uses event listeners, you need to know which event objects are available and which constants are available within those objects.

I have looked through the (incredibly dense) online help for Flash CS4 and cannot find a comprehensive list of event objects and constants.

Can anyone point me to a reference so I can find the events I need?

Thank you!!

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Colin Holgate
Colin Holgate
Inspiring
May 1, 2009

This lists all of the event types:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/flash/events/package-detail.html

Click on any that you're interested in, and then in the document that comes up look at the Constants list. For example, here's the MouseEvent one:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/AS3LCR/Flash_10.0/flash/events/MouseEvent.html#constantSummary

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Anonymous
May 2, 2009

Thank you!

Thyat's one of the lists I need, though I'm still trying to figure out some component events like comobobox and checkbox CHANGE, for example.

kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 2, 2009

check the help files under the component name/events.  all the events for that component will be listed.

and, in general, all the events for any class will be listed under the class name/events.

kglad
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kgladCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 1, 2009

what do you think is missing from the list in the help documents?

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Anonymous
May 2, 2009

Thanks for replying.

First, I couldn't find the list despite repeated searches. Found a lot of AIR and Flex stuff though! :-)

But to answer your question more seriously, now that I have the list, I'm looking for an "ON CHANGE" or "ON SELECT"  type event for a combobox component. I went through the flash.events list and still can't find some of the basic events I'd expect for components. How do you trigger an event handler when the user changes the checked state of a Checkbox, for example? How to check the value of a text field as each character (ON KEY event in other languages) is typed?

Any help appreciated, I have a huge amount of forum validation ahead of me in CS4.

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