Eventdispatcher Class (Api) - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-COMPONENTS LANGUAGE Reference

Some event object properties are defined in the W3C specification
Level-3-Events/events.html) but aren't implemented in version 2 of the Macromedia
Component Architecture. Every version 2 event object has the properties listed in the table
below. Some events have additional properties defined, and if so, the properties are listed in
the event's entry.
Property
type
target

EventDispatcher class (API)

ActionScript Class Name
Method summary for the EventDispatcher class
The following table lists the methods of the EventDispatcher class.
Method
EventDispatcher.addEventListener()
EventDispatcher.dispatchEvent()
EventDispatcher.removeEventListener()
500 EventDispatcher class
Description
A string indicating the name of the event.
A reference to the component instance broadcasting
the event.
mx.events.EventDispatcher
Description
Registers a listener with a component instance.
Dispatches an event programmatically.
Removes an event listener from a
component instance.
(www.w3.org/TR/DOM-