Coded Creativity

Code ::

my_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,handleClick);

function handleClick(e:MouseEvent)
{
trace("my_btn was clicked !!!");
// code to be executed on click here
}

my_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,handleClick);

In this line, we are assigning an Event Listener to the button (instance name : "my_btn") to listen to the Events Stream and call the function "handleClick" when a MouseEvent, "CLICK" is registered.

In simple words, the function is called when the user clicks the button we put on the stage.

Syntax for initializing an eventHandler :: Object.addEventListener(Event,function_name);

function handleClick(e:MouseEvent)
{
trace("my_btn was clicked !!!");
// code to be executed on click here
}

Here, we are defining a function by name handleClick which will be called when a mouse click event is registered.
Here a parameter variable, "e" of the type MouseEvent is set because the eventHandler function passes an event variable as arguments and the function needs to accept it though we dont use it in the code.