Event-handling examples

Here are a few more concrete examples of events to give you an idea of some of the common event elements and possible variations available when you write event-handling code:

Clicking a button to start the current movie clip playing. In the following example, playButton is the instance name of the button, and this is a special name meaning "the current object":
```
this.stop();

function playMovie(event:MouseEvent):void
{
    this.play();
}

playButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, playMovie);
```

Detecting typing in a text field. In this example, entryText is an input text field, and outputText is a dynamic text field:

function updateOutput(event:TextEvent):void
{
    var pressedKey:String = event.text;
    outputText.text = "You typed: " + pressedKey;
}

entryText.addEventListener(TextEvent.TEXT_INPUT, updateOutput);

Clicking a button to navigate to a URL. In this case, linkButton is the instance name of the button:

function gotoAdobeSite(event:MouseEvent):void
{
    var adobeURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.adobe.com/");
    navigateToURL(adobeURL);
}

linkButton.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, gotoAdobeSite);

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