Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source

Chapter 9. Using Custom Events

<feature><title>What You Will Learn</title>

In this lesson, you will:

• Understand the benefits of a loosely coupled architecture

• Dispatch events

• Declare events for a component

• Identify the need for custom event classes

• Create event subclasses

• Create and use a CategoryEvent class

• Create and use a ProductEvent class

• Use ProductEvent to remove a product from the cart

• Use ProductEvent to add a product to the cart

• Use event bubbling

</feature><feature><title>Approximate Time</title>

This lesson takes approximately 2 hours to complete.

</feature><feature><title>Lesson Files</title>

Media Files:

• None

Starting Files:

• Lesson09/start/DataEntry.mxml

• Lesson09/start/EComm.mxml

• Lesson09/start/as/ecomm.as

• Lesson09/start/managers/CategorizedProductManager.mxml ...