Stuck... Pease need help passing variable

Question

Hi all....
I have an event listener added and it calls a function.
Adding the event listener passes the event to the function
automatically but what if i want to pass additional information to
it?
So this:
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, doEveryFrame);
Becomes this
addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,
doEveryFrame(extra_var_passed));
function doEveryFrame(event:Event,
extra_var_passed:Number):void {
//code here
It seems because I am trying to pass a new variable it no
longer passes the event for me auto-magically.... how I go about
passing that event myself?
Is it possible to even pass another variable like
this??

Answer 1

This is AS3, correct?
You need to create your own event object that has the
properties you need to pass.
Take a look at the tutorial on custom events here:
http://www.8bitrocket.com/newsdisplay.aspx?newspage=5776