Question

I have problem with casting custom event currentTarget to component. When I’m trying to removeElement from its parent container i get error. What’s the deal?

TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert mx.events::FlexEvent@8811c41 to com.modultek.pis.itemmachine.search.events.SortEvent.

private function sortSelection_removeHandler(event:SortEvent):void
{
            var sortSelection:SortSelection = event.currentTarget as SortSelection;
            this.removeElement(sortSelection);
}

Component will be removed but I get this error.

Answer 1

your problem is not in the var sortSelection:SortSelection = event.currentTarget as SortSelection; line at all.

Read the Error message carefully. It tells you that there is an invalid cast from FlexEvent to SortEvent, which happens on

private function sortSelection_removeHandler(event:SortEvent):void

Change event:SortEvent in the function signature to event:FlexEvent or event:Event