Adding an mouse event listener to a bitmap with ActionScript 3.

Question

Hi, I'm new to ActionScript 3 (without any experience with Flash development) and I was wondering how I would go about adding an mouse event listener to a bitmap? The code works with a sprite, just not with a bitmap. Here is a shortened version of the code I'm trying to run, I hope it makes sense!

var fsImageRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("img/fullscreen.png");
var fsImageLoader:Loader = new Loader();
fsImageLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, fsImageLoaded);
fsImageLoader.load(fsImageRequest);
addChild(fsImageLoader);

function fsImageLoaded(e:Event):void {
    var fsImageLoader:Loader = Loader(e.target.loader);
    fsImage = Bitmap(fsImageLoader.content);
    fsImage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, fullScreenClick)
}

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You've added the event listener in the line fsImage.addEventListener(...

Now you need to write the function that handles that event, such as:

private function fullScreenClick(event:MouseEvent):void
{
  // do something here
}

EDIT: To add a bitmap to a sprite, you can do the following:

var sprite: Sprite = new Sprite();
sprite.addChild(fsImage);
addChild(sprite);