Issue in getting data from popup?

Question

i hav created a popup window called simpleWindow, and a custom event to retrieve data from the popup called "popupMessage" in follwing way.
simpleWindow.addEventListener("popupMessage",windowClose);
In popup i call the dispatchEvent in following way
var outgoingEvent:Event = new Event("popupMessage",false);
        dispatchEvent(outgoingEvent);
but the event is not called?. what may be the issue?...

Answer 1

Hi,
To retrieve the data from the popup, you first need to create a custom class which wil be
used to handle the events.
I created the class as CustomEvents.as and then pass the data to the constructor of the
class and the class look like as:
package
import flash.events.Event;
public class CustomEvents extends Event
  public static const POPUPDATA:String = "popupMessage";
  public var data:*;
  public function CustomEvents(type:String,data:*)
   this.data = data;
   super(type);
once this is done then suppose on close of a popup you want to send data then this would be
done by creating object of this customEvents.as Class and passing the data u want to send.
in this u can dispatch event like this:
outgoingEvent = new CustomEvents(CustomEvents.POPUPDATA,textInput.text);
    dispatchEvent(outgoingEvent);
Above code is in the popup class and the corresponding event listener for that is in the
main class and which is like:
popUp.addEventListener(CustomEvents.POPUPDATA,windowClose);
Hopefully this will solve your problem and if nowt do let me know. and
if you are able to solve the problem mark it as such