Broadcast events between classes (objects)

Question

Hello,
I'm can't figure out how to broadcast an event to another
class.
In actionscript 2 I created 2 classes. The first class called
the second class to load a file from an url. When the file was
loaded I used dispatchEvent({type: "fileLoaded", target: this,
filename: sFilename})
In the first I simply wrote addEventListener("fileLoaded",
handleFile)
But with AS3 this no longer works.
Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this? Because I can't
find a clear example and I don't know how to do this.

Answer 1

In the defintion of your custom event I miss the isEnabled
part (don't know if that has anything to do with the issue though).
Below a custom event that works for me
package Components {
import flash.events.Event;
public class ZoomEvent extends Event
public var isEnabled:Boolean;
public static const ZOOM:String = 'zoom';
public var vertical:Boolean = true;
public var minvalue:Number = 0;
public var maxvalue:Number = 0;
public var zoomfactor:Number = 0;
public function ZoomEvent(type:String,
isEnabled:Boolean=false) {
super(type);
this.isEnabled = isEnabled;
public override function clone():Event {
return new ZoomEvent(type, isEnabled);
Furthermore I have somewhere read in the documentation that
using custom event should go together with adding an embedded
statement like: [Event(name="update",
type="Components.UpdateEvent")] in the class where you use the
event, but for me it also works without this embedding code (???)
And is your class XMLData a subclass from a class that
supports dispatchEvent. I do not know what classes support
dispatchEvent, maybe all. Then this remark makes no sense.
Good Lcuk