Is there anyway to dispatchEvent with a fuction delcared inside the class?

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Hi guys, I’ve got a class where I’m using:

o.type = “focus”;
o.target = “this”;
dispatchEvent(o);

and then focus is a function of an object in the FLA.

I want focus to be in the AS External Class file but it won’t trigger.

any ideaS?

thanks.