Alert Component help

programming flash
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There’s gotta be something I’m missing. It seems as if all I ever do is ask for help. Sorry about that.

Okay. I’m trying to use an alert component to thank a user for sumbitting their information in a form. I don’t get any errors when I hit ctrl+enter, but when I actually press the Submit button in the preview window, I get a message that says
"Submit clicked
Failed to create a new alert, probably because there is no Alert in the Library
"
I have a perfectly good Alert component all stored in my library waiting to be used. Btw, the form works without the alert button. I just thought it’d be nice to give the user some confirmation that his/her information has been submitted.

[edit] Actually, the form doesn’t work anymore, even without the component. I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong.

Thanks in advance!

Here’s the code I’m using:


import mx.controls.Alert; 
thanks = new Object();

thanks.click = function (evt)
{
	trace(evt.target.label + " clicked");
	Alert.show("Thank you for submitting your informaiton",Alert.OK, _root, alertHandler,Alert.OK);
}

namebox.tabIndex  = 1;
emailbox.tabIndex = 2;

submit.onPress = function() {
   var myLoadVars = new LoadVars();
   myLoadVars.name = name.text;
   myLoadVars.email = email.text;
   myLoadVars.send("form.php");
   
submit.addEventListener("click",thanks );

alertHandler = function(theEvent)
{
	if (theEvent.detail == Alert.NO)
	{
		// no button
		trace ("Ok? What do you mean, \"ok?\"");
	}
}
   namebox.text=" "
   emailbox.text=" "
}