Question

I’m in a Flex Mobile application project. I need to dispatch an event to the FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication and it has to contain a custom message.

I’m trying to make an object and dispatch it like this:

//create the event Object

var receivedObjMsg:Object = new Object();
receivedObjMsg.name = "receivedMessage";
receivedObjMsg.message = messagevarhere;

FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.dispatchEvent(receivedObjMsg);

and then receive it like this on the other view like this:

FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.addEventListener("receivedMessage", receiveMsgHandler);


protected function receiveMsgHandler(event:Event):void
{
trace("IT WORKED!");
}

But its saying it cant make an object into an event:

Type Coercion failed: cannot convert Object@5a507911 to flash.events.Event.

I also tried putting this in the bottom of the main application mxml where i created the event;

<fx:Metadata>
[Event(name="receivedMessage", type="flash.events.Event")]
</fx:Metadata>

I can’t really seem to find an example that demonstrates what im trying to do. Any ideas how I can get this to work?

Answer 1

dispachEvent() only accepts an Event object. You’ll need to make your own class ReceivedObjMsg.

Details on creating your own class in an answer on a previous question of yours.

Your issue is basically here:

var receivedObjMsg:Object = new Object();
receivedObjMsg.name = "receivedMessage";
receivedObjMsg.message = messagevarhere;

FlexGlobals.topLevelApplication.dispatchEvent(receivedObjMsg);

Parsing Object through dispatchEvent()