Dispatching a custom event just received by a dispatcher

programming flash
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Hello there.
I would like to know why this piece of code doesn’t work.
When I try to dispatch a custom event “MyEvent” after receiving it from another dispatcher I get this error (at run-time):

TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.events::Event@a5c2101 in MyEvent.
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at MyListener/::handleMyEvent()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at MyDispatcher/fire()
at MyListener/fire()
at testEvents$iinit()

I found a workaround as you can see below.
However I still do not understand why Flash cannot convert the event just received in MyEvent seen that the event just received is MyEvent!
Here it is the code.

[LEFT][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=#808080]// file: testEvents.as (the document class)[/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT]


package{
  import flash.display.MovieClip;
  public class testEvents extends MovieClip{
    public function testEvents():void{
      // Creates MyListener that creates MyDispatcher
      var mylistener:MyListener = new MyListener();
      // Sets a listener for MyEvent
      mylistener.addEventListener(MyEvent.MY_EVENT_1,handleMyEvent);
      // Starts MyListener that starts MyDispatcher that sends MyEvent
      mylistener.fire();
    }
    private function handleMyEvent(event:MyEvent):void{
      trace(event);
    }
  }
}

[LEFT][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=#808080]// file: MyEvent.as[/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT]


package{
  import flash.events.Event;
  public class MyEvent extends Event{
    public static const MY_EVENT_1:String = "event1";
    public function MyEvent(type):void{
      super(type);
    }
  }
}

[LEFT][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=#808080]// file: MyListener.as[/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT]


package{
  import flash.display.Sprite;
  public class MyListener extends Sprite{
    var mydispatcher:MyDispatcher = null;
    public function MyListener():void{
      // Creates MyDispatcher
      mydispatcher = new MyDispatcher();
      // Sets a listener for MyEvent
      mydispatcher.addEventListener(MyEvent.MY_EVENT_1,handleMyEvent)
    }
    public function fire():void{
      // Starts MyDuspatcher that sends MyEvent
      mydispatcher.fire();
    }
    private function handleMyEvent(event:MyEvent):void{
      trace(event is MyEvent); // sure it is, in fact it returns true
      // ERROR at Run-time: TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.events::Event@a5c2101 in MyEvent
      dispatchEvent(event);
      // To fix the Error I need to create another istance of MyEvent and dispatch it
      // dispatchEvent(new MyEvent(MyEvent.MY_EVENT_1));
    }
  }
}

[FONT=Courier New][COLOR=#808080][/COLOR][/FONT][LEFT][FONT=Courier New][COLOR=#808080]// file: MyDispatcher.as[/COLOR][/FONT][/LEFT]


package{
  import flash.display.Sprite;
  public class MyDispatcher extends Sprite{
    public function MyDispatcher():void{
      // Does nothing
    }
    public function fire():void{
      // Dispatch MyEvent
      dispatchEvent(new MyEvent(MyEvent.MY_EVENT_1));
    }
  }
}

In attach you can find a zip that contains the files, just dezip it in a dir and open the FLA and launch it.

What am I missing?
Sorry is this is a lame question but although I think I’m quite skilled in AS1-prototype, I’m learning AS3 in these days so I feel like a newbie again :smiley: