Prototype ¬ Detail

author: Covenent [+], Submitted: 07.05.03 2p

// disables objects current listeners so it cant send events to them
Object.prototype.disableListeners = function () {
	// store old listeners
	this.$_listeners = this._listeners;
	
	// clear listeners array
	this._listeners = [];
}
// enables objects listeners
Object.prototype.enableListeners = function () {
	// set listeners back to previous state
	this._listeners = (this.$_listeners == null) ? this._listeners : this.$_listeners;
}

usage

(I know this is an Object prototype, but its more related to ASBroadcaster so I posted it here.)

A very simple prototype for disabling/enabling listeners.

I found this particularly useful when creating my own Classes, as I might have add a method that
automatically triggered an event; but sometimes I would want to call the method without triggering
the event. It seemed wasteful to pass additional arguments to the method and use if statements, so
I wrote this instead.