Flash CS5: The Missing Manual

In Case of Other Events

The events covered in this chapter are just a few of the many events defined in Flash and ActionScript. There are events to handle error messages and events to track the process of a file or web page loading. There are events specific to components like scroll bars, sliders, context menus, text lists, and color pickers. The good news is that you use the same statements to register an event listener and to specify the actions that are to take place when an event happens.

Here's a partial list of some of the event classes recognized by Flash Player.

Class	Description
Activity Event	Used by cameras and microphones to indicate they're active.
AsyncErrorEvent	Used to indicate an error in network communication.
ContextMenuEvent	Indicates a change when the audience interacts with a context menu.
DataEvent	Indicates raw data has completed loading.
ErrorEvent	Used to indicate a network error or failure.
Event	The base class for all other events classes.
FocusEvent	Triggers an event when the audience changes focus from one object to another.
FullScreenEvent	Indicates a change from or to full-screen display mode.
HTTPStatusEvent	Creates an event object when a network request returns an HTTP status code.
IOErrorEvent	Indicates an error when trying to load a file.
KeyboardEvent	Indicates keyboard activity.
MouseEvent	Indicates mouse activity.
NetStatusEvent	Reports on the status of a NetConnection, NetStream, or SharedObject.
ProgressEvent	Reports on the progress while a file loads.
SampleDataEvent ...