DataEvent class

[elsassph]

Hello,

I know it's trivial, but while you're reimplementing the event dispatching model in Starling API you might as well include a DataEvent class.

[PrimaryFeather]

Hi Philippe,
you mean an Event that has a data property of type Object (or Dictionary?), right? You're right, that sounds like a good idea!!!

[elsassph]

Yep I mean a simple flash.events.DataEvent class in the startling API.

It's better to dispatch a string value than check the target object to know what it's about.

[PrimaryFeather]

Hm, I have never used that event class manually -- only when built-in classes (like XMLSocket) dispatch them.

But in principle, you want just an event that you can attach a string to, right? That would work perfectly fine with a "DataEvent" class that has a "data" property of type "Object" -- and then, people could attach a dictionary, as well (I know several developers who are too lazy to always create custom Event-subclasses with properties, LOL!)

Would that help?

[elsassph]

Well it sounds reasonable to allow passing any object as the data instead of just a string.

I'm using it a lot for instance for navigation actions:
dispatchEvent(new DataEvent("navigate", true, true, "menuscreen"));

[PrimaryFeather]

Makes sense, thanks for the suggestion! I'll make it so! =)

[elsassph]

As a side note I suggest you use the * type (data:*).

[PrimaryFeather]

The "data" property is now part of any Starling event object. That should settle this! =)