removeEventListener from another class

[flip-Ed]

Hi

I hve a class in which I created an Mouse-Event-Listener. It's not my main class and it's linked to an object on the stage.

In my main-class which is linked to the .fla file I want to remove this listener after a certain action(for example MOUSE_DOWN on a Button)

how do I do that?

I tried both

stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, createIt)

and

event.target.parent.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, createIt)

but that doesnt seem to be right.

[guardiankitty]

Well lets say you have a movieclip and you add this to it:

mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, mcCLICKHandler);

function mcCLICKHandler(e:MouseEvent):void{
    //do stuff
    //then remove the event handler from this object
    e.currentTarget.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,mcCLICKHandler);
}

In the above example, the currentTarget of the event is the movieclip which the eventlistener was attached to. So, it would be the same as (actually better than) calling mc.removeEventListener(//blah );

If you are trying to change (add or remove) event listeners from outside of the class- if you have a pointer to that class, you can just do it the way that is shown above (mc.addeventlistener or mc.removeeventlistener). If you do not have a 'pointer' (i use that term lightly for as3- mc in this case), you will need to make one (this can be done a number of ways, if you need a globally accessible pointer to a given instanced class, you can just static it out to singleton variable- but there are many many ways to get access to your class (another being getchild by ___ functions---)).

Hope my ramblings make a little bit of sense =3

Best of luck!
_gk>'.'<