Dispatch Event not working!

Hey Guys!

I am bit frustrated with this dispatch event issue....I have attached my source files....can somebody please take a look ad explain me what is wrong with me ? I am eager to know which of my basics went wrong....

I have this class 'ClickLearnLogic.as' which listens for the custom event generated by 'ClickLearnTabs.as'.

Thanks in advance for your kind consideration!

PHP Code:

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package {
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import ClickLearnModel.*;
    public class Click_Learn extends MovieClip {

        public static const TotalTabs:Number = 3;
        public static const isLinear:Boolean = false;
        public var tabs:Array=new Array();

        public function Click_Learn():void {
            for(var i=0;i<this.numChildren;i++){
                tabs.push(this.getChildAt(i));
            }
            var controller:ClickLearnLogic = new ClickLearnLogic(tabs,this);
        }

    }
} 


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PHP Code:

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package {
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import ClickLearnModel.*;
    public class ClickLearnLogic extends MovieClip {

        public var target:MovieClip;

        public function ClickLearnLogic(tabsArr,target):void {
            this.target=target;
            trace("Waiting here for the custom event");
            for (var i=0; i<tabsArr.length; i++) {
                tabsArr[i].addEventListener(ClickLearnEvent.ON_TAB_CLICK,fnShowPopup);
            }
        }
        private function fnShowPopup(evt:ClickLearnEvent):void {
            trace("event received");
            target.txt.text=evt.target.name;
        }
    }
} 


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PHP Code:

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package {
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    public class ClickLearnTabs extends MovieClip {

        private var tabClickedEvent:ClickLearnEvent;

        public function ClickLearnTabs():void {
            this.gotoAndStop("active");
            addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP,fnTabClicked);
        }
        private function fnTabClicked(Evt:MouseEvent):void {
            tabClickedEvent = new ClickLearnEvent(ClickLearnEvent.ON_TAB_CLICK);
            trace("Event is created but dispatch code below does not fires");
            dispatchEvent(tabClickedEvent);
        }
    }
} 


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PHP Code:

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package {
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.Event;
    public class ClickLearnEvent extends Event {
        
        public static  const ON_TAB_CLICK:String = "onTabClick";
        
        public function ClickLearnEvent(type:String, bubbles:Boolean=false, cancelable:Boolean=false):void {
            super(type, bubbles, cancelable);
        }
    }
} 


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Hope this will work for you..

Hey good to see you again.....

Your code resolved my issue but can I please request you to explain at a conceptual level what I was doing wrong and how u resolved it ?

Though I gave you the previous solution, this is more right approach to do what you are trying:

Document Class

PHP Code:

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package {
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    import flash.text.TextField;
    import classes.*;

    public class DocClass extends MovieClip {
        public static  const TotalTabs:Number = 3;
        public static  const isLinear:Boolean = false;
        public var controller:ClickTabLogic;
        private var tabsList:Array;

        public function DocClass():void {
            tabsList=new Array(tab1,tab2,tab3);
            controller = new ClickTabLogic(this);
            
            for (var i=0; i<tabsList.length; i++) {
                tabsList[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,tabClicked);
            }
        }
        private function tabClicked(evt:MouseEvent):void {
            controller.setTab(evt);
        }
    }
} 


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Base Class which attached with the Button Symbols

PHP Code:

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package classes{
    import flash.display.MovieClip;

    public class ActiveButton extends MovieClip {

        public function ActiveButton() {
            this.gotoAndStop("active");            
        }
    }
} 


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This Class is listening whenever events are dispatches

PHP Code:

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package classes{
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.text.TextField;

    public class ClickTabLogic extends MovieClip {
        public var tabs:ClickTabs;
        private var target;
        public function ClickTabLogic(target):void {
            this.target=target;
            trace("Waiting here for the custom event");
            tabs=new ClickTabs();
            tabs.addEventListener(ClickTabEvent.ON_TAB_CLICK,fnShowPopup);
        }
        private function fnShowPopup(evt:ClickTabEvent):void {
            target.txt.text=(evt.target.tabName);
        }
        public function setTab(evt) {
            tabs.clickedListener=(evt);
        }
    }
} 


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This Class is despatching event

PHP Code:

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package classes{
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.Event;
    public class ClickTabs extends MovieClip {
        private var tabClickedEvent:ClickTabEvent;
        public var tabName;
        public function ClickTabs() {
        }
        public function set clickedListener(evt):void {
            tabName=evt.target.parent.name;
            tabClickedEvent = new ClickTabEvent(ClickTabEvent.ON_TAB_CLICK);
            trace("Event is created but dispatch code below does not fires");
            dispatchEvent(tabClickedEvent);
        }
    }
} 


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This is the constant Class which extends Event Class

PHP Code:

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package classes{
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.Event;
    
    public class ClickTabEvent extends Event {
        
        public static  const ON_TAB_CLICK:String = "onTabClick";
        
        public function ClickTabEvent(type:String, bubbles:Boolean=false, cancelable:Boolean=false):void {
            super(type, bubbles, cancelable);
        }
    }
} 


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There are many approaches on dispatching and listening custom events, but out of all there are two type of methods of doing those. Those are push and pull methods. The previous solution I shown you was a dirty way. This is a push method and is more flexible for oop programming.

Try to go through the code, If you still fail to understand how it works, just let me know, I'll try to explain in detail of both the solutions and there dependencies in programming structure.


Regards