Flash Builder Long Press on List - Mobile - actionscript-3

Question

I want to display a list (in a tile layout, but I don't think that changes anything) and open up the editing window for the tile that I long press on (i.e. press for at least 1 second). The timer starts fine and the longPressHandler event is correctly called after 1 second, however, the object that is selected is the previous object that I had touched.
For example, say I tap on Object A, then I long press on Object B: the longPressHandler will "open" up Object A in the editing window. I have debugged and I see that the SelectedItem property of my List only updates after I end my long press (as in, after I pick up my finger or release the mouse button). Is there any way to open up the currently selected item?
Relevant Actionscript:
private var longPressTimer:Timer = new Timer(1000,1);
private function startLongPressMouse(event:MouseEvent):void {
startLongPressTimer();
list.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, endLongPressMouse);
}
private function endLongPressMouse(event:MouseEvent):void {
stopLongPressTimer();
enableClick();
list.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, endLongPressMouse);
}
private function startLongPress(event:TouchEvent):void {
startLongPressTimer();
list.addEventListener(TouchEvent.TOUCH_MOVE, endLongPress);
}
private function endLongPress(event:TouchEvent):void {
stopLongPressTimer();
enableClick();
list.removeEventListener(TouchEvent.TOUCH_MOVE, endLongPress);
}
private function startLongPressTimer():void {
longPressTimer.start();
longPressTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER_COMPLETE, longPressHandler);
}
protected function disableClick():void {
trace("disable click");
list.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, regularClickHander);
}
public function enableClick():void {
list.callLater(list.addEventListener, [MouseEvent.CLICK, regularClickHander]);
}
public function resetListSelection():void {
list.selectedIndex = -1;
list.validateDisplayList();
}
private function stopLongPressTimer():void{
longPressTimer.stop();
longPressTimer.reset()
}
public function longPressHandler(event:TimerEvent):void{
disableClick();
stopLongPressTimer();
lblD.text = "Long Press Detected on: " + list.selectedItem.className;
}
Relevant MXML:
<s:List id="list" dataProvider="{grades}" touchBegin="startLongPress(event)" touchEnd="endLongPress(event)"
mouseDown="startLongPressMouse(event)" mouseUp="endLongPressMouse(event)"
labelField="name"
left.landscape="10" right.landscape="20" top.landscape="350" bottom.landscape="20"
left.portrait="20" right.portrait="20" top.portrait="350" bottom.portrait="20">
<s:itemRenderer>
<fx:Component>
<s:ItemRenderer width="100%" height="200">
<s:Label text="{data.className}" top="30" horizontalCenter="0" color="#646464"/>
<s:Label text="{data.credits}" top="50" horizontalCenter="0" color="#646464" fontSize="14"/>
<s:Label text="{data.grade}" top="100" horizontalCenter="0" color="#646464" fontSize="14"/>
</s:ItemRenderer>
</fx:Component>
</s:itemRenderer>
<s:layout>
<s:TileLayout requestedColumnCount="3" requestedColumnCount.landscape="4" columnAlign="justifyUsingWidth"/>
</s:layout>
</s:List>
I changed the longPressHandler to just display the name of the selected item rather than open up the editing window.
Let me know if you need any more information. Thank you in advance for your help!

Answer 1

One way is to create a custom event (with custom property) so that you can pass whatever data you want when you dispatch the event.
package events;
{
import flash.events.Event;
public class YourCustomEvent extends Event
{
public var yourData:Object;
public function YourCustomEvent(type:String, yourData:Object)
{
super(type);
this.yourData = yourData;
}
override public function clone():Event{
return new YourCustomEvent(type, yourData);
}
}
}
Hope it helps!
PS: I wanted to put this in the comment but it got bigger as a typed :)