Perhaps the listener is not yet ready when the canvas creationComplete fires?
Tracy ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of markflex2007 Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:08 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] why I can not dispatchEvent with creationComplete? I try the following code, But I can not dispatchEvent. <mx:Canvas xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> " creationComplete="justLogin()" > <mx:Metadata> [Event(name="loginEvent", type="flash.events.Event")] </mx:Metadata> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ private function justLogin():void{ dispatchEvent(new Event("loginEvent", false)); } ]]> </mx:Script> </mx:Canvas> I can dispatchEvent with button click, please let me know how to automatic dispatchEvent in page start. Thanks Mark
