Play effect on dynamically created visual component

Question

Hi!
Can someone please explain to me, how do I play effect on a visual component created in actionscript?
Thanks, regards

Answer 1

You can also set the target/targets property of the effect once you've created the instance in AS, just like you do in MXML code. So where in MXML you might have something like this:
     <mx:Button id="button" click="mover.play()"/>
      <mx:Move id="mover" target=""/>
you would do the equivalent in actionscript like this:
     var button:Button = new Button();
     var mover:Move = new Move();
     mover.target = button;
     button.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickHandler);
     private function clickHandler(event:Event):void
          mover.play();
There's no mystery here in launching effects from AS - it's the same properties and structures that you set up in MXML, just different syntactic ways of referring to the properties and events.
Chet.