Question

I’m trying to use a flexlib schedule viewer in my application.

I want to have it so that when I click on a scheduled event, it calls a function in my main app (that will allow me to edit the event). But there doesn’t seem to be any specific function for anything like this built into the class ie no event dispatched when I click on an event.

I can use the ‘click’ function to detect that the item has been clicked on.. and have tried something like this:

         private function exerciseClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void{
            if (exerciseSeries.selectedItem != null){
                //code

            }
        }

     <code:ScheduleViewer id="exerciseSeries" click="exerciseClickHandler(event)" />

This method isn’t very reliable because if it only works the first time.. once an item is selected, it stays selected so all following clicks on the item fulfills the condition.

Is there any way to determine whether an event was being clicked on?

Or do I have to extend the component and add some sort of clickEvent when an event is clicked on.

Answer 1

Since exerciseClickHandler is firing up when you click on the component, wouldn’t this work?

Instead of

private function exerciseClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void{
     if (exerciseSeries.selectedItem != null){
          //code
     }
}

write

private function exerciseClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void{
     switch (exerciseSeries.selectedItem)
     {
          //code
          case xy:
          break;
     }
}

or

private function exerciseClickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void{
     //do something with exerciseSeries.selectedItem
}

What I mean is that you wrote that everything stops after the first element is clicked. And according to the code you provided it has to stop, beacuse after the first click exerciseSeries.selectedItem won’t be null anymore, since it’s selected. So remove the conditional you wrote and use the instance.