Hello,
Ive got a class that i want to trigger an event when its done its Asynchonous stuff which will cause another file to react with the listener and process this information. Thats the basics for it… let me give you some more information on my problem though…
Ive made a custom class which handles the event and that all seems to be fine, lets call that customEvent.as, i then have another .as file which stores some functionality for retrieving information, lets call this asyncFunctions.as. Now i include the functionality file into my flash file (random.fla), now i have put in:
random.fla
addEventListener(customEvent.CUSTOM_ACTION, processUpdate);
asyncFunctions.as
dispatchEvent(new customEvent(customEvent.CUSTOM_ACTION, Response));
Now that seems to make sense to me, when ive done my async functions i dispatch an event in the .as file and then wait for the listener that i set up in the .fla file to recieve it. However there are 2 problems, when i put in dispatchEvent in the class it says “Call to a possibly undefined method dispatchEvent” so i thought AH maybe it needs to be sent from an object, so i managed to get it working by doing “asyncFunctions.dispatchEvent(args…)”, and it compiled but the listener never recieves the event… but ive debugged it and the code is run to send the event. So im just wondering can only certain object send/recieve events, or is there a certain way you are meant to add/dispatch stuff. Im a bit puzzled and ive looked over a few online tutorials relating to this, such as the adobe one.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/event_handling_as3_07.html
So rather than code aimlessly trying to make it work without understanding it i thought i would ask you guys, so what nuggets of wisdom have you got for me today! Any nuggets would be welcome 
Cheers,
Grofit
