Starling uses their own, but I believe the agreed reason for us not doing it was a performance issue. The flash player is running native code at something like 40 times more efficient I believe... or at least that was what was stated in someone's tests.
-Mark -----Original Message----- From: Kessler CTR Mark J [mailto:mark.kessler....@usmc.mil] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 7:27 AM To: users@flex.apache.org Subject: RE: Version 4.12 of Apache Flex Well you can add some redundant code to removeAllListeners if you would like, but we can't modify the flash player code. The dispatching ultimately gets handled by the player. I made an example[1] a while back on duplicating the tracking of the event listeners and ultimately it can remove them all. The last updated code for it should be [2] for now. [1] http://people.apache.org/~mkessler/examples/FLEX-33608/app.swf [2] https://github.com/KesslerConsulting/example/commit/30ee4b96911d301ea09516324241c4bc9d734f16