May
05
2008
Using an anonymous inline function when adding an event listener
I show here how to use an inline event handler function when creating an event listener and how to remove it later.
This is a real timesaver when you want to add small function as a handler for an event.
myButton_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
function(e:Event){trace(e.currentTarget.name+" was just clicked!");});
If you want to remove that listener later, you can only do that when the listener has been called:
myButton_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
function(e:Event)
{
trace(e.currentTarget.name+" was just clicked!");
//removing anonymous listener
e.currentTarget.removeEventListener(e.type, arguments.callee);
});

