# AS3 problems addChild and addEventListener

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-problems-addchild-and-addeventlistener/263241>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 13, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-problems-addchild-and-addeventlistener/263241 "2008-06-13T17:34:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![birne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@birne](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/birne)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-problems-addchild-and-addeventlistener/263241/1 "2008-06-13T17:34:24Z")

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hello,

i got serious problems with my code. it was an old version of a game (written ins as2).

i needed it in as3 and reprogrammed everything. but still i got problems with addChild and addEventListener functions.

like this:

```auto
titleScreen = parentTL.addChild(new FTitleScreen()); 

titleScreen.addEventListener("EventCloseTitleScreen", EventCloseTitleScreen);

scoreboard = parentTL.addChild(new FScoreBoard());

textIntro.addEventListener("EventTextIntroComplete", this);

this.addEventListener("Display", textIntro);

this.removeEventListener("Display", textIntro);

```

should be something simple, what i dont know … 👁

can anybody rescue me???

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**Author:** ![birne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@birne](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/birne)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-problems-addchild-and-addeventlistener/263241/2 "2008-06-14T07:31:01Z")

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i don’t need a bag, just some answers for AS3 … can anybody help me, please?

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**Author:** ![Iamthejuggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Iamthejuggler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Iamthejuggler)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 8:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-problems-addchild-and-addeventlistener/263241/3 "2008-06-14T08:41:52Z")

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What exactly is the problem? The only problem I see is with the line:

textIntro.addEventListener(“EventTextIntroComplete”, this);

you can’t pass this as a event handler. It has to be a function that takes an event as a parameter.

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**Author:** ![birne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@birne](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/birne)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 9:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-problems-addchild-and-addeventlistener/263241/4 "2008-06-14T09:22:42Z")

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every line i posted above makes problems.

what exactly i should do? write a function for the eventlistener?