triggering mouse events w/o the mouse

I have a button that triggers some code and I want to trigger that same code for initialization purposes w/o the user having to click the button....how would I programmatically trigger that buttons event?

thx for the help in adv.!

Is your code triggered in the buttons call function or is it a separate function ?

Here's a fast "example".

yourButtonsInstanceName.addEventListener(MouseEven t.CLICK, onClick);

function onClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
// do something
}

and for your second button you should only do a:

secondButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick);

If you are calling a certain function inside onClick at your first button then you could do something like this for your second button:


secondButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, onSecondClick);

function onSecondClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
yourFunction(); // call the specific function
}

Hope that helped, if not, try uploading a file or something so that I ( we ) can understand much better what your problem is.

Good luck.

Your question was vague, but I can guess that you mean one of two things. First: "How can I make the function not depend on the event?". That's fairly easy. You can make the event argument to the function have a default value.

Code:

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public function handleClick(event:MouseEvent = null){
 //stuff that never uses event
}

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Now handleClick can be used as a MouseEvent listener AND it can be called with no arguments.

Second: "How can I simulate mouse actions without actually relying on the user?"

This one is a little more complex, but also do-able. You can use VirtualMouse, which is a handy little class from Senocular which simulates the mouse and can dispatch actual mouse events. Check the com.senocular.ui package under ActionScript 3 here: http://senocular.com/flash/actionscript.php

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Originally Posted by 5TonsOfFlax

You can make the event argument to the function have a default value.

Code:

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public function handleClick(event:MouseEvent = null){
 //stuff that never uses event
}

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yes, that was a good suggestion and one that I will probably use...the other way I was thinking of involved using dispatchEvent, but I'm not familiar with using it and I'm sure that's what senocular utilizes in those classes probably.
thanks guys!

You could make your button dispatch a click event this way:

Code:

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yourButtonsInstanceName.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.CLICK));

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This triggers the event listener as if the user had clicked the button.