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 > > > > -- > > "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." > > > > :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald > > :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > Links > > > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]