Flash Eff Error! Please Help!

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“FLASHEFF2 ERROR: Target must be a non-null DisplayObject.”

My problem is that the Flash Eff effect cannot be applied to my movieclip instance. It works fine if I add the movieclip to the stage by dragging it from the library but not if I initialize it from Actionscript:



import com.jumpeye.Events.FLASHEFFEvents;
import com.jumpeye.flashEff2.filter.reflection.FEFReflection;
import myImage;

var image1:myImage = new myImage();
addChild(image1);

var effect:FlashEff2Code = new FlashEff2Code();
addChild(effect);

var reflection:FEFReflection = new FEFReflection();
reflection.refresh = false;
reflection.reflectionAlpha = 0.8;
reflection.reflectionRatio = 160;

effect.addFilter(reflection);

effect._targetInstanceName = "image1";

Please Help!