How do I trigger or fire an event in chrome debugger? - google-chrome

I'd like to fire an event in the Chrome Debugger. I'm not sure how to go about doing that. Also, I'd like to know how to fire a custom event that takes arguments.

In the console:
1) Select the element
For a particular element: (i.e. selector = ".edit-list-button")
var element = document.querySelector(selector)
For the whole document
var element = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0]
2) Create the event
Without arguments:
var event = document.createEvent("Event")
With arguments: (Where data can be any object including a simple string)
var event = new CustomEvent(EVENT_NAME, { detail: DATA })
3) Initialize the event
event.initEvent(EVENT_NAME, true, true)
4) Fire the event
element.dispatchEvent(event)

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how can i access to child in object in as3

i want to access the child of Object!
for instance:
we a have child(that name is a1) in k1 object.
how can i access it(my means a1 which in the k1)
var k1:keypad=new keypad();
k1.x=7.05;
k1.y=229.20;
add Child(k1);
this.k1.a1.addEventListener(Mouse Event.CLICK,ts);
function ts(event:Mouse Event):void{
trace("OK");
};
thank you.
event has a property target. this one is the child which was clicked.
function ts(event:MouseEvent):void{
trace(event.target);
};
You are doing it wrong. You declare a local variable k1:
var k1:keypad
which is not a member of this object, you cannot access it
this.k1
So your code will probably work this way:
// Bad class name: lowercase.
var k1:keypad = new keypad;
k1.x = 7.05;
k1.y = 229.20;
// This is addChild() method, it is spelled without space.
addChild(k1);
// Then you access k1 just as you did above, without this.
// This will work if you designed your keypad with
// Adobe Flash IDE on default publish settings.
k1.a1.addEventListener(Mouse Event.CLICK, onA1);
// This will work too if a1's instance name is a1:
// k1.getChildByName("a1").addEventListener(Mouse Event.CLICK, onA1);
// Event handler. MouseEvent is a class name,
// it has no space inside.
function onA1(e:MouseEvent):void
{
trace("OK");
}
// Normally you don't need ; after function body.

closures with popups using flex 4.6

I have this custom event handler that shows a popup and accepts input from the user:
private var mySkinnablePopupContainer:MySkinnablePopupContainer;
private function handleShowGridPopupEvent(event:ShowGridPopupEvent):void {
var mouseDownOutSideHandler:Function = function(mdEvent:FlexMouseEvent):void {
// At this point, event.targetControl contains the wrong object (usually the previous targetControl)
if (mdEvent.relatedObject != event.targetControl) {
mySkinnablePopupContainer.close();
}
}
var gridPopupSelectionHandler:Function = function(popEvent:PopUpEvent):void {
if (!popEvent.commit) return;
// At this point, event.targetData contains the wrong object (usually the previous targetData)
myModel.doSomethingWithData(popEvent.data.selectedItem, event.targetData);
}
if (!mySkinnablePopupContainer) {
mySkinnablePopupContainer = new MySkinnablePopupContainer();
mySkinnablePopupContainer.addEventListener(PopUpEvent.CLOSE, gridPopupSelectionHandler);
mySkinnablePopupContainer.addEventListener(FlexMouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN_OUTSIDE, mouseDownOutSideHandler);
}
// At this point, event.targetData contains the correct object
mySkinnablePopupContainer.dataProvider = getMyDPArrayCollection(event.targetData);
mySkinnablePopupContainer.open(this);
var point:Point = event.targetControl.localToGlobal(new Point());
mySkinnablePopupContainer.x = point.x + event.targetControl.width - mySkinnablePopupContainer.width;
mySkinnablePopupContainer.y = point.y + event.targetControl.height;
}
Every time the function handler gets called, it will have the correct ShowGridPopupEvent object but by the time it calls the
gridPopupSelectionHandler, it will contain the old object from a previous call. It works the first time, subsequent calls fails.
Somehow the reference to the event object changed somewhere in between before opening the popup and after.
Any idea what am I doing wrong here? Is this a bug with flex?
found the prob. since im attaching listener only once, it will reference the old listener, with the reference to the old data. i guess i was expecting its reference to be updated whenever i create the closure. not in this case. possible fix is to remove the listener and re-add it again but I abandoned the idea of using closures, and aside from what RIAStar mentioned, it is also impractical as it only gives more overhead by creating a new function for every invocation of the handler.

ObjectChanged Event not Bubbling for ValuesAdded/ValuesRemoved

I am trying to reduce the number of event listeners attached to my collaborative models. In order to do this, I have started listening to the ObjectChanged event instead of specific event types and delegating to other handlers. However it doesn't look like the ObjectChanged event is being bubbled properly for the ValuesAdded/ValuesRemoved changes on CollaborativeLists.
function onObjectChanged(e)
{
log('Changed: ', e);
}
// Placeholder, called when we load our doc through the realtime api.
function onDocLoaded(doc)
{
var docModel = doc.getModel();
var docRoot = docModel.getRoot();
console.log('Drive document loaded: ', window.performance.now());
if (docRoot.has('testMap'))
{
docRoot.delete('testMap');
}
docRoot.set('testMap', docModel.createMap());
var testMap = docRoot.get('testMap');
console.assert(testMap, 'Test map required');
docRoot.addEventListener(gapi.drive.realtime.EventType.OBJECT_CHANGED, onObjectChanged);
var testList = docModel.createList();
testMap.set('testList', testList);
console.assert(testList, 'Test list required');
setTimeout(function ()
{
console.log('Begin Push');
testList.push('This is a test string');
console.log('End Push');
}, 1000);
}
The code above is run on doc load and demonstrates the problem. In this case, I would expect two ObjectChanged events to be fired (first for the list being set on the map and second for the string push into the list). The first event fires correctly, however the list push does not trigger an ObjectChanged event on either the 'docRoot' or the 'testMap'. As both of these are ancestors of the testList an event should be bubbled to them (based on https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/handle-events#event_bubbling).
The ObjectChanged event however IS fired on the testList, so it looks like there is an issue with only the bubbling portion.
Is there a way of ensuring that the event bubbling will occur? Additionally, for events that are bubbling up, is there a way to stop bubbling partway?

How can I recover an object who fires an eventListener event in AS3?

How can I access to an object who fires an eventListener event?
Let's say I have a mc:
var element = new MovieClip();
which has an eventlistener:
element.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, elementEventHandler);
And then, in the event handler, I want to add something to my mc:
function elementEventHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
var b1:balloon = new balloon("ballon1"); //this is another class.
event.target.addChild(b1);//this doesn't work.
}
So that is what I want to achieve... Recover the object who fired the event and then do crazy things with it (in this example, add another object in it).
If anybody has any idea, thanks in advance!
pd: yes, I know I can directly use the var element in this snippet, but in the real code I'm generating the mcs in a loop, according to a xml file.
function elementEventHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
// use the as-operator to cast the target into the class you need
var element:DisplayObjectContainer = e.target as DisplayObjectContainer;
// if the cast fails, element will be null, then we bail
if(!element) return;
// then, create your child and add it
var b1:balloon = new balloon("ballon1");
element.addChild(b1);
}
The reason you're getting an error is probably that the event is not coming directly from element but instead from one of its descendant objects.
"click" is a bubbling event.
Check out event flow in the DOM Level 3 Events spec to understand how the capture, target, and bubbling phases work:
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/#dom-event-architecture
So here's what I would do:
function elementEventHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
{
if (event.target != event.currentTarget)
// If event is not from "element", ignore it.
return;
...
}

how to get the id from the clicked component

On runtime, I create multiple instants of the Group class, like this:
var groupArtist:Group = new Group();
groupArtist.id = artistXML.id;
groupArtist.width = 150;
groupArtist.height = 170;
groupArtist.clipAndEnableScrolling = true;
groupArtist.layout = new VerticalLayout();
I add an eventlistener:
groupArtist.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, viewDetails);
This is the eventlistener:
private function viewDetails(event:MouseEvent):void
{
Alert.show(event.target.id);
}
But it's not working. How can I get the id of the clicked Group?
I've checked, and the Id is added correctly to the groupinstances.
Try this:
Alert.show(event.currentTarget.id);
What you're alerting is the "target" that was clicked, and associated in the "MouseEvent.CLICK" event, and you probably want the "currentTarget". As Flex Documentation explains on this, "Every Event object has a target and a currentTarget property that help you to keep track of where it is in the process of propagation. The target property refers to the dispatcher of the event. The currentTarget property refers to the current node that is being examined for event listeners.".
The Most Interesting Man in the World doesn't normally code in Actionscript... but when he does, he uses event.currentTarget.