There are two classes being used, one is “global” to handle variables and “globalEvent” to handle events. It was incosistant of me not to import both, sorry.

Thanks for keeping me honest.

For this example I wanted to show how you can add properties to the Event class. If we look up Event in the help we can see all the existing properties (public and private), methods and events. We should not modify the Event class itself, so we choose to extend it. When we add “extends Event” we are telling flash we have new class, but instead of rewriting the entire Event class over we want to add to it’s functionality; something that will work better with our application. This is actually called a “sub class”, not technically custom but customized.

The super part is a call directly to the Event class from within our subclass. So when this event is fired, we pass in some data and set our new properties and fire off the parent or super class that has all the functionality we need. Some subclasses do not need to call super “legoClip” class from above.

You can fire a custom event a lot easier then extending the event class. Just put dispatchEvent(new Event(”SOME_EVENT”,true)); Add “,true” if you want the event to bubble up to a higher object, if you just want the event within the object that fired it, then leave it out. You will need to add an addEventListener(”SOME_EVENT”, eventHandler); where ever you want to handle the event, from there you can still get basic event functionality. like event.target and event.type.

Hope this helps.