fl.addEventListener()

Availability

Flash CS3 Professional.

Usage

fl.addEventListener(eventType, callbackFunction)

Parameters

eventType A string that specifies the event type to pass to this callback function. Acceptable values are "documentNew", "documentOpened", "documentClosed", "mouseMove", "documentChanged", "layerChanged", and "frameChanged".

NOTE

The documentChanged value doesn't mean that the content of a document has changed; it means that a different document is now in the foreground. That is, fl.getDocumentDOM() will return a different value than it did before this event occurred.

callbackFunction A string that specifies the function you want to execute every time the event occurs.

Returns

Nothing.

Description

Method; registers a function to be called when a specific event occurs.

When using this method, be aware that if the event occurs frequently (as might be the case with mouseMove) and the function takes a long time to run, your application might hang or otherwise enter an error state.

Example

The following example displays a message in the Output panel when a document is closed:

myFunction = function () { 
    fl.trace('document was closed'); } 
fl.addEventListener("documentClosed", myFunction);