Communicating to Parent SWF

Question

Hey guys I'm having such a hard time of it today.

I have a game, I've loaded into a parent SWF -

I would like my parent SWF to accept events I dispatch from within the game, or have the ability to talk both ways.

-- Reason is, I would like to unload and load the game back in, once the end screen is active.

Any help and I'll give you beer.

thanks in advance.

Answer 1

can't you put in your parentSWF:

childSWF.addEventListener(MyCustomEvent.SOME_EVENT, listener) and just dispatch the events from the game?

As for talking the other way, it can call childSWF.someFunction() to call functions in the document class of childSWF, etc.

Answer 2

Are the events dispatched by your game allowed to bubble up to your loader swf? The default value for the Event constructor sets this to false. If you were to set it to true, however, an event dispatched by a child swf would make it to its parent's listener.

For example: this.dispatchEvent(new Event("SOME_GAME_EVENT", true, true));

The first 'true' value says that the event should bubble up through the object hierarchy. The second says that the Event is cancelable. Once your loader swf has handled the Event, it is best to then call .stopPropagation() on the event so it does not further bubble unneccessarily.