eventDispatcher Problem

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Hey All,

Just recently started with AS3 and have hit a wall with the eventDispatcher and creating custom events. I can’t see what I am doing wrong:

My class file:

package resources.methodCalls{
    import flash.display.*;
    import flash.net.*;
    import flash.events.*;
    import flash.media.*; 

    public class requests {

        public var requestedArray : Array = [];


        // requests class constructor
        public function requests() {
        }
        public function varCompiler(method:String, url:String, missionID:String, assignment:String, versionID:String) {

            //establish opening and closing XML tags
            var requestXML:XML = 
            <shuttleAPI>
            <versionID>{versionID}</versionID>
            <method>{method}</method>
            <assignment>{assignment}</assignment>
            <missionid>{missionID}</missionid>
            </shuttleAPI>;
            //appends interior tags to the recently established XML var
            //requestXML.version = versionID;
            //requestXML.method = method;
            //requestXML.assignment = assignment;
            //requestXML.missionid = missionID;

            trace(requestXML.toXMLString());

            methodRequest(method, url, requestXML);

        }
        
        private function dataHandler(event:Event):void {
            var dataLoaded:URLLoader = URLLoader(event.target);
            trace(dataLoaded.data);
            var receivedXML:XML = new XML(dataLoaded.data);
            trace("receivedXML = "+receivedXML);
            trace("requestedArray ="+requestedArray);
            for each (var list:XML in receivedXML.foo) {
                trace( "items = "+list );
                requestedArray.push(list);
                trace( "requestedArray = "+requestedArray );
            }
           [COLOR=Red] dispatchEvent(new Event("dataLoaded"));[/COLOR]
        }
    
        public function methodRequest(method:String, url:String, requestXML:XML):void {

            var dataRequest : URLRequest = new URLRequest (url);
            var dataLoader : URLLoader = new URLLoader ();
            var requestVars : URLVariables = new URLVariables ();


            requestVars.xml = requestXML;
            dataRequest.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
            dataRequest.data = requestVars;


            dataLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, dataHandler);
            dataLoader.load(dataRequest);
        }
    }
}

The AS on the main timeline:

import resources.methodCalls.*;

var url:String = "http://##########";
var missionID:String = "1";
var assignment:String = "missionControl";
var versionID:String = "0.0.1";

var camRequest : Object = new requests();


camRequest.varCompiler("getCamList", url, missionID, assignment, versionID);

camRequest.addEventListener("dataLoaded", callbackHandler);

function callbackHandler(event: Event) {
trace("camRequest.requestedArray = "+camRequest.requestedArray);
}

Whenever I execute the code I get the following compiler error:

1180: Call to a possibly undefined method dispatchEvent.

Which is referring to the code I have highlighted in red in the class file.

What am I doing incorrectly?

Thank you for you time and energy.

Nate