MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING COMPONENTS Use Manual page 491

The second usage example uses a dispatcher/listener event model. A component instance
(
loaderInstance
function, also called a handler, on a listener object (
a method with the same name as the event on the listener object; the method is called when the
event is triggered. When the event is triggered, it automatically passes an event object
( ) to the listener object method. Each event object has properties that contain
eventObject
information about the event. You can use these properties to write code that handles the event.
Finally, you call the
instance that broadcasts the event to register the listener with the instance. When the instance
dispatches the event, the listener is called.
For more information, see
Example
The following example creates a Loader component and then defines a listener object with a
event handler that sets the loader's
complete
createClassObject(mx.controls.Loader, "loader", 0);
loadListener = new Object();
loadListener.complete = function(eventObj){
loader.visible = true;
}
loader.addEventListener("complete", loadListener);
loader.contentPath = "logo.swf";
Loader.content
Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0 79.0).
Edition
Flash MX 2004.
Usage
loaderInstance.content
Description
Property (read-only); a reference to a movie clip instance that contains the contents of the loaded
file. The value is
See also
Loader.contentPath
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) dispatches an event (in this case,
EventDispatcher.addEventListener()
"EventDispatcher class" on page
until the load begins.
undefined
) and the event is handled by a
complete
listenerObject
method on the component
415.
property to
visible true
) that you create. You define
: