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Registers an event listener object with an EventDispatcher object so that the listener receives notification of an event. You can register event listeners on all nodes in the display list for a specific type of event, phase, and priority.

After you successfully register an event listener, you cannot change its priority through additional calls to addEventListener(). To change a listener's priority, you must first call removeListener(). Then you can register the listener again with the new priority level.

After the listener is registered, subsequent calls to addEventListener() with a different value for either type or useCapture result in the creation of a separate listener registration. For example, if you first register a listener with useCapture set to true, it listens only during the capture phase. If you call addEventListener() again using the same listener object, but with useCapture set to false, you have two separate listeners: one that listens during the capture phase, and another that listens during the target and bubbling phases.

You cannot register an event listener for only the target phase or the bubbling phase. Those phases are coupled during registration because bubbling applies only to the ancestors of the target node.

When you no longer need an event listener, remove it by calling EventDispatcher.removeEventListener(); otherwise, memory problems might result. Objects with registered event listeners are not automatically removed from memory because the garbage collector does not remove objects that still have references.

Copying an EventDispatcher instance does not copy the event listeners attached to it. (If your newly created node needs an event listener, you must attach the listener after creating the node.) However, if you move an EventDispatcher instance, the event listeners attached to it move along with it.

If the event listener is being registered on a node while an event is also being processed on this node, the event listener is not triggered during the current phase but may be triggered during a later phase in the event flow, such as the bubbling phase.

If an event listener is removed from a node while an event is being processed on the node, it is still triggered by the current actions. After it is removed, the event listener is never invoked again (unless it is registered again for future processing).

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Dispatches an event into the event flow. The event target is the EventDispatcher object upon which dispatchEvent() is called.

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Checks whether the EventDispatcher object has any listeners registered for a specific type of event. This allows you to determine where an EventDispatcher object has altered handling of an event type in the event flow hierarchy. To determine whether a specific event type will actually trigger an event listener, use IEventDispatcher.willTrigger().

The difference between hasEventListener() and willTrigger() is that hasEventListener() examines only the object to which it belongs, whereas willTrigger() examines the entire event flow for the event specified by the type parameter.

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For example (with code from Proxy.nextNameIndex()):

     protected var _item:Array; // array of object's properties
     override flash_proxy function nextNameIndex (index:int):int {
         // initial call
         if (index == 0) {
             _item = new Array();
             for (var x:* in _target) {
                _item.push(x);
             }
         }
     
         if (index < _item.length) {
             return index + 1;
         } else {
             return 0;
         }
     }
     override flash_proxy function nextName(index:int):String {
         return _item[index - 1];
     }
     

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For example:

     protected var _item:Array; // array of object's properties
     override flash_proxy function nextNameIndex (index:int):int {
         // initial call
         if (index == 0) {
             _item = new Array();
             for (var x:* in _target) {
                _item.push(x);
             }
         }
     
         if (index < _item.length) {
             return index + 1;
         } else {
             return 0;
         }
     }
     override flash_proxy function nextName(index:int):String {
         return _item[index - 1];
     }
  

Parameters

For example (with code from Proxy.nextNameIndex()):

     protected var _item:Array; // array of object's properties
     override flash_proxy function nextNameIndex (index:int):int {
         // initial call
         if (index == 0) {
             _item = new Array();
             for (var x:* in _target) {
                _item.push(x);
             }
         }
     
         if (index < _item.length) {
             return index + 1;
         } else {
             return 0;
         }
     }
     override flash_proxy function nextName(index:int):String {
         return _item[index - 1];
     }
     

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Removes a listener from the EventDispatcher object. If there is no matching listener registered with the EventDispatcher object, a call to this method has no effect.

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Checks whether an event listener is registered with this EventDispatcher object or any of its ancestors for the specified event type. This method returns true if an event listener is triggered during any phase of the event flow when an event of the specified type is dispatched to this EventDispatcher object or any of its descendants.

The difference between hasEventListener() and willTrigger() is that hasEventListener() examines only the object to which it belongs, whereas willTrigger() examines the entire event flow for the event specified by the type parameter.

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