Event.INIT & Event.COMPLETE not registering/triggering

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A little background first:

I run ubuntu hardy with flash 10 and im using flex 3 sdk to compile my projects. I’m new to actionscript but not programming.

Here’s the issue. I’m working on a proggy that simply displays a picture. For some reason when i register an event handler for a loader like COMPLETE or INIT, i find that the handler is either not registered or not being triggered. Thus, I cannot add it to the display list through that method. The code is fine (see below) because I took it directly out of an Oreily book. Oddly ProgressEvents seem to work fine and i can essentially derive a “COMPLETE” event handler from that, but that is an ugly workaround.

Code:


     [LEFT]package {
import flash.display.*;
  import flash.net.URLRequest;
  import flash.events.*;

   public class Main extends Sprite {
    private var loader:Loader;

     public function Main() {
      loader = new Loader();
      loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT, initListener);
      var urlRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest("sunset.jpg");
      loader.load(urlRequest);
    }

     private function initListener (e:Event):void {
      addChild(loader.content);  // Add Bitmap object to SunsetViewer
    }
  }
}[/LEFT]

Any help would be appreciated. I’m guessing it’s something wrong with my configuration/setup, but any idea as to what?

On a side note: because of some odd dependency issues i cannot run the official standalone flashplayer/debugger for linux. Are there any other replacements that can run flash 10 files? I’m currently testing using firefox and the flash 10 plugin (ugh).

Thanks again.