Events vs Dispatching Events

OZApps

Here's the sample code that I tried.

-- Sample code to test this issue local function onMouseUp(event) for i,j in pairs(event) do print(i,j) end end   stage:addEventListener(Event.MOUSE_UP, onMouseUp)

Now it tells me that one of the members of the event is "type" and has the value of "mouseUp"

I tried to dispatch a mouseUp event as

local evt = Event.new("mouseUp") -- Even tried it as Event.new(Event.MOUSE_UP) for i,j in pairs(evt) do print(i,j) end -- There is no "type", instead there is a "_type" -- so, tried to manually fix that too   evt.type = "mouseUp" stage:dispatchEvent(evt)   -- This does not work. Any ideas why?

ar2rsawseen

Event.MOUSE_UP is a built in event. I doubt you can dispatch it.

In your case something like this would work:

-- Sample code to test this issue local function onMouseUp(event) print("mouseUp") end   stage:addEventListener("mouseUp", onMouseUp)   local evt = Event.new("mouseUp") stage:dispatchEvent(evt)

OZApps

Event.MOUSE_UP is a built in event. I doubt you can dispatch it.

@ar2rsawseen, A slight correction Event.MOUSE_UP is just a string "mouseUp"

For some reason the code

-- Sample code to test this issue local function onMouseUp(event) print("mouseUp") end   stage:addEventListener(Event.MOUSE_UP, onMouseUp)   local evt = Event.new(Event.MOUSE_UP) stage:dispatchEvent(evt)

works, but when I am trying to dispatch it with the same, it doesn't. Maybe @Atilim could shed some light on this.

OZApps

@DOH!! How silly of me, it works just as I expected it, the code I posted will work, the problem was that the handler was set on another object but triggered on the stage