EventController: Event management made easy. A leak free event experience for AS3

Event Controller was designed to stay out of your way and follow nearly the same structure as you are already using for creating and removing events with AS3. Only now with a little extra horsepower under the hood. There is even a local event controller that you can use to create local events managers and separate your events into buckets. Check out Event Controller in action. We are sure it has a little something for everyone.

Event Controller in Action

Event Controller is a very basic yet extremely powerful library. You can easily update any current project in minutes to utilize the Event Controller library. From beginners to advanced developers, everyone should find something for them. Below you will find a few examples of the simplicity of EC (Event Controller) and also how to empower yourself with it. We recommend taking the time to understand each example.

Links: basics | intro to clusters | regexp feature | event logging | local event control

Here is a small quick sample but click on the links above for an indepth overview of the classes or check out our documentation:

import _as.fla.events.LEC;
                   
var btn:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
var lec:LEC = new LEC(); //for a local event controller
//or:
var ec:LEC = LEC.getGlobal(); // the global event controller

//basic add event
lec.add(btn, Event.ENTER_FRAME, loop, "button");
lec.add(btn, MouseEvent.CLICK, onClick, "button");
lec.add(btn, MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, onOver, "button");
lec.add(btn, MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, onOut, "button");
                                       
function loop(e:Event):void{}
function onClick(e:MouseEvent):void{}
function onOver(e:MouseEvent):void{}
function onOut(e:MouseEvent):void{}
                   
                   
// yes you can still change your useCapture,priority,useWeakReference attributes
// using the same normal flow but pushing the cluster name to the last param:
//lec.add(btn, MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, onOut, false, 0, true, "button"); // all the same
                   
//remove a cluster of events
lec.remove("button");
                   
//or remove it by sending the object to be removed
lec.remove(btn);
                   
//or you can regexp it(any regexp welcomed) :
lec.remove(/button/);

All new logger plugins

//plugin required for logging. Check docs for other popular built in flash loggers. 

  import _as.fla.events.log.ClassicLog; 
  EC.plug(ClassicLog); 
  //output all events in my controller
  lec.log();
                   
  //or - output all events of button
  lec.log(btn);


  //or - output all events in cluster
  lec.log("cluster ID");
                   
  //or - output all events that match the regular expression
  lec.log(/button/);

As of release 1.3 and up we have added support for popular Flash loggers. First was the ClassicLog which you have seen above but we have also added in support for loggers like Alcon, Arthropod and Monster Debugger. This is to help out anyone already locked into a debugger.

For more information and to download the library please visit us at:
http://fla.as/ec/

p.s we would love to hear from you. If you want to hear from us join our google group for updates or to listen in and chat about events and flash.