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AS3: onAdded Event Listener

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The point of this listener is to detect when something has been added to the stage. Purely experimental.

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  1. function onAdded(e:Event):void {
  2.     // get reference to child from event object
  3.     // as child variable of target will not yet be defined
  4.     var childRef:MovieClip = e.target as MovieClip;
  5. 	trace(childRef.type + " " + stage.numChildren);
  6.  
  7.     // check the name of the reference for correct instance name
  8.     if (childRef && childRef.name == "child"){
  9.         e.target.removeEventListener(Event.ADDED, onAdded);
  10.     }
  11. }
  12. //stage.addEventListener(Event.ADDED, onAdded);

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