Gideros event showing as null after being triggered

Question

I have got Dispatched events in my gideros game. What im not certain of, is that when i try access the event (object triggered) it returns a table that has a length of 0.

I have a letter class as below:

GridLetter = gideros.class(Sprite)

function GridLetter:init(letter)

    self.image = Bitmap.new(Texture.new("GridLetters/"..letter.."Grid.png"))
    self.image:setAnchorPoint(0.5, 0.5)
    self.focus = false
    self:updateVisualState(true)
    self:addEventListener(Event.MOUSE_DOWN, self.onMouseDown, self)
end

function GridLetter:onMouseDown(event)
    if self:hitTestPoint(event.x, event.y) then
        self.focus = true
        self:dispatchEvent(Event.new("GridLetterDown"))
        event:stopPropagation()
    end
end

function GridLetter:updateVisualState(state)
    if state then
        self:addChild(self.image)
    end
end

The code that implements this class is below:

grid = Core.class(Sprite)

local letterArr = {"a","b","c","d","e","f","g","h","u","j","k","l","m","n","o","p","q","r","s","t","u","v","w","x","y","z"}
local gridboard = {{},{},{},{}}

local letterBoxArr = {{},{},{},{}}
local letterBox

function grid:init(params)

    local widthOfSingle = (application:getContentWidth() / 4)
    for rowCount = 1,4 do
        for colCount = 1,4 do
            rand = math.random(1, 26)
            gridboard[rowCount][colCount] = letterArr[rand]
        end
    end

    for rowCount = 1,4 do
        for colCount = 1,4 do
            letterBox = GridLetter.new(gridboard[rowCount][colCount])
            letterBoxArr[rowCount][colCount] = {letterBoxItem=letterBox}
            letterBoxArr[rowCount][colCount].letterBoxItem:setPosition(((widthOfSingle * colCount) - (widthOfSingle / 2)), 100 * rowCount)
            letterBoxArr[rowCount][colCount].letterBoxItem.letter = gridboard[rowCount][colCount];
            letterBoxArr[rowCount][colCount].letterBoxItem:addEventListener("GridLetterDown", LetterDown, self)
            self:addChild(letterBoxArr[rowCount][colCount].letterBoxItem)
        end
    end
end

function LetterDown(event)
    print(event.target.letter)
end

When i click on one of these image, the event is fired and code does run under the LetterDown event, but when trying to access the event parameter, it returns:

grid.lua:32: attempt to index field 'target' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
    grid.lua:32: in function <grid.lua:31>
    GridLetter.lua:15: in function <GridLetter.lua:12>

any idea or workarounds?

When replacing:

print(event.target.letter)

to

print(event.x)

It prints nil.

I appreciate your help in advance.

Regards, Warren

Answer 1

I have got it.. Someone on gideros forums helped me out, thanks to Advert as well.

So in my onMouseDown event i was assigning the .letter on the general event. So creating a local var and assigning it the event before dispatching it, the variable then keeps my assigned letter.

Hope this helps others in future!

function GridLetter:onMouseDown(event) if self:hitTestPoint(event.x, event.y) then self.focus = true local e = Event.new("GridLetterDown") e.letter = self.letter self:dispatchEvent(e) event:stopPropagation() end end

Thanks for all responses.