ActionScript 3.0 using closures for event handlers

Question

I tried doing this:

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

And it

Answer 1

I dont know what you're actually doing but in this particular example perhaps you could have a _clickEnabled global variable.

Then inside the event handler you just check _clickEnabled, and if its false you just return immediately.

Then you can enable and disable the overall event without detaching and reattaching it.