AS3 - Event listener that only fires once
- by Zed-K
I'm looking for a way to add an EventListener which will automatically removes itself after the first time it fires, but I can't figure a way of doing this the way I want to.
I found this function (here) :
public class EventUtil
{
public static function addOnceEventListener(dispatcher:IEventDispatcher,eventType:String,listener:Function):void
{
var f:Function = function(e:Event):void
{
dispatcher.removeEventListener(eventType,f);
listener(e);
}
dispatcher.addEventListener(eventType,f);
}
}
But instead of having to write :
EventUtil.addOnceEventListener( dispatcher, eventType, listener );
I would like to use it the usual way :
dispatcher.addOnceEventListener( eventType, listener );
Has anybody got an idea of how this could be done?
Any help would be greatly apprecitated.
(I know that Robert Penner's Signals can do this, but I can't use them since it would mean a lot of code rewriting that I can't afford for my current project)
