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Hi,
I have some custom events bubbling between widgets in different modules (one YUI instance) but they only bubble if I add the following dummy bit of code into bindUI() of the firing widget:

this.on("mycustomevent", function(e) { Y.log("HERE I AM"); } );

I guess the custom event thinks no-one is listening for it and so this.fire("mycustomevent") doesn't broadcast.

I have listeners for the custom events in the event target modules but these only fire with the above dummy listener included in the module firing the event.
I have followed the custom event documentation closely but nevertheless must have misunderstood something. Any ideas?

Thanks

Alex

Hi,
I am bubbling - as I understand it I should use 'broadcast' when the YUI instance or other YUI instances are the listeners. My app is within a local environment - I need to create a simplified test harness for this. I have included 'event', 'event-custom', 'event-custom-complex'.

Do you think the problem I have relates to the 'exit' case referred to in this comment in event-target.js for the 'fire' method :
*
* If the custom event object hasn't been created, then the event hasn't
* been published and it has no subscribers. For performance sake, we
* immediate exit in this case. This means the event won't bubble, so
* if the intention is that a bubble target be notified, the event must
* be published on this object first.

This comment(and code) suggests I do need to publish even if I am using the default configuration for custom events. This comment implies also that I must publish in the target object - not the firing object - but what if I have other targets?

Is there a way to dump the custom event queue with a list of listeners?
I will create test case and perhaps see where I am going wrong.

Thanks
Alex