Thanks Doug, I figured that'd be the answer. Not against monkey patching by
any means (we use a few atm to fix bugs in SOAP code), just wanted to check
first to see if there was a secret way to do it that I didn't know about
before I go and mess about with FlexSprite :)
-Josh
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Doug McCune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is this your custom component or just any component you don't control?
> If it's yours you could override dispatchEvent to know whenever the
> component dispatches any event. Or you could override addEventListener
> to know whenever something adds an event listener.
>
> If it's not your custom component (ie you can't override anything)
> then you might be out of luck (other than going through and manually
> adding listeners for all possible strings you think the component
> might dispatch). But I don't think there is any way to know all the
> events that a component might dispatch in its lifetime. ALthough you
> could probably do a search on the FLex SDK for "dispatchEvent(" and
> compile a full list of all events that all Flex SDK components will
> ever dispatch. I wonder how long that list is...
>
> The other thing to try (although this probably violates your "without
> hacking" clause) is this monkey patched version of FlexSprite I
> blogged about:
> http://dougmccune.com/blog/2008/02/21/monkey-patching-flexsprite-to-list-all-event-listeners-on-any-flex-component/
>
> What that does is gives you an array of all the event listeners that
> have been registered on a certain component. That's not the same as a
> list of all events that the component might ever dispatch (since the
> component may very well dispatch events that nobody listens to). The
> other thing I would suggest is you could use the same approach to
> monkey patch FlexSprite and add some special code into the override
> for dispatchEvent and then you could be notified about anytime the
> component dispatches any event at all. Again, that probably goes
> against the not hacking condition of the question :)
>
> Doug
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Josh McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > Is it possible to listen to all events that bubble to / are dispatched
> from
> > a certain component?
> >
> > Don't worry, I don't actually plan on using this in any actual code! I'm
> > just interested in doing some extremely verbose logging to gather
> > information for a blog post I have in mind ;-)
> >
> > -Josh
> >
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