FLEX: question about dispatching event through hierarchies of components

Question

hi,

if I dispatch an event from a component, can this event be listened by the grandparent of the component ?

If not, what should I do to make it happen ?

Should I add a listener and dispatcher to the parent (component in the middle) as well ?

Thanks

Answer 1

What you are asking for are bubbling events. Have a look at the event propagation chapter in the Flex docs.

What you need is an event that bubbles so you'll need to set the bubble attribute to true, see the docs for the Event constructor. When you dispatch that event, it will be bubbling up the hierarchy in the third phase of the event propagation and you can listen for it all the way up.