PROGRESS and COMPLETE Events explanation...

[MarekMularczyk]

Hello everyone, I am looking for someone who would explain something to me.

While creating a preloader in Flash using AS 3.0, there are 2 events that take place: PROGRESS Event while the file is loading, and COMPLETE Event when the file successfully loads.

The parameters for events are:

-  addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, functionName);

-  addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, functionName);

My question is: why Progress uses ProgressEvent and Complete uses Event? What if you use Event in both?

Any help will be much appreciated.

[kglad]

try it.  you can learn alot from experimenting.

you'll find the Event class has no PROGRESS property. why adobe created a ProgressEvent with a PROGRESS property instead of creating a PROGRESS property for the event class, i don't know.