Help me out with dispatchEvent()

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#1

I have a module that I want to dispatchEvents that I pickup in another module. Seems you need a display object to use addEventListener and dispatchEvent.  

#2

Hi @soggybag,

You can also dispatch events to the Runtime object, as follows:

[lua]

local myListener = function( event )

    print( "Event: " … event.name )

    print( "Custom value: " … event.myCustomValue )

end

Runtime:addEventListener( “myEventType”, myListener )

local function dispatchSomething()

    Runtime:dispatchEvent( { name=“myEventType”, myCustomValue=“It works!” } )

end

timer.performWithDelay( 1000, dispatchSomething )

[/lua]

Hope this helps,

Brent

#3

Hi @soggybag,

You can also dispatch events to the Runtime object, as follows:

[lua]

local myListener = function( event )

    print( "Event: " … event.name )

    print( "Custom value: " … event.myCustomValue )

end

Runtime:addEventListener( “myEventType”, myListener )

local function dispatchSomething()

    Runtime:dispatchEvent( { name=“myEventType”, myCustomValue=“It works!” } )

end

timer.performWithDelay( 1000, dispatchSomething )

[/lua]

Hope this helps,

Brent