Custom Event Dispatcher with object data, Actionscript 3

I have always used custom events in Actionscript 3 to completing my projects … but lately i had to send out a movieclip along my custom event … i did not yet know how i had to achieve this so i began testing and playing around …

For anbody who will need to send out a object (movieclip, sprite , …. , or any other custom build class) along with the event that is dispatched … this is what you will need to do …

What we need :

1. A custom class of that particular custom event (holding the data object, which can hold any datatype what so ever indicated by the “*” , and the event type , in this case MY_CUSTOM_EVENT)

Custom Events Class

2. A custom event dispatcher which dispatches the event with the data object

Dispatching the CustomEvent

3. An eventlistener to listen for the custom event when dispatched

Event Listener : listening for the CustomEvent

Do not forget importing the reference to your CustomEvent class and other related classes needed …

Event driven programming has made my projects code more structured, easy to maintain and optimalized … I really advise starting programmers to use this method …