So I had a few minutes this morning to knock up a quick example of how to use Native Events with AS3Signals. While this example is ‘billy basics’ it should hopefully give you an idea of how to use Signals to handle regular AS3 Event’s, if not, give me a shout and I’ll put something else together! There are a number of benefits for using a Signal Event even though we have to still use a Native Event such as the Signals ease of adding, removing listeners, passing data and of course the impressive speed increase of using Signals over Native Events which you can read about here: http://alecmce.com/as3/events-and-signals-performance-tests.

So in this example we’re going to look at how we use Signals to interact with the Native MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN when invoked on a Sprite.

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