ActionScript 3.0 using closures for event handlers

Question

I tried doing this:

root.addEventListener(\"click\", 
   function () 
   { 
      navigateToURL(ClickURLRequest,\"_self\"); 
   });

And it

Answer 1

Here's a generic way of removing event listeners that i have used on production projects

addEventListener
(
    Event.ACTIVATE, 
    function(event:Event):void
    {
        (event.target as EventDispatcher).removeEventListener(event.type, arguments.callee)             
    }
)