DispatchEvent

Question

I'm modeling an application after the ReviewTube sample
application. That application the following class defined. I wrote
a class almost identical to this and I get an error "1180: Call to
a possibly undefined method dispatchEvent." on the line with the
call to dispatchEvent. I have no idea why I'm gettting the error
but the ReviewTube sample doesn't. In looking at the below class I
do not see where the definition for dispatchEvent is coming from.
Can anyone explain?
quote:
package com.joeberkovitz.reviewtube.model
import flash.events.Event;
[Event(name="selectedVideoChange",type="flash.events.Event")]
public class Session
[Bindable]
public var currentUser:User;
private var _selectedVideo:VideoInfo;
[Bindable("selectedVideoChange")]
public function get selectedVideo():VideoInfo
return _selectedVideo;
public function set selectedVideo(v:VideoInfo):void
if (v != null && v != _selectedVideo)
_selectedVideo = v;
dispatchEvent(new Event("selectedVideoChange"));

Answer 1

Hi, Alynn,
Thanks for the e-mail. I am a newbie and really want to figure out what is going on with the
Here is what I do
1) In the constructor of the frame subclass, I add the three buttons something like
formatButton=new JButton("Format");
formatButton.addActionListener(this);
formatButton.setEnabled(true);
formatButton.setLabel("Run");
2)In action handler I have
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
     String cmd = e.getActionCommand();
     if (cmd.equals("Run")) {
// do something
else if(cmd.equal("Stop"){
// do something
else if (cmd.equals("Close Port"))
portClosed();
formatButton.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(formatButton,
MouseEvent.MOUSE_CLICKED, 1 , MouseEvent.BUTTON1_MASK, 1, formatButton.getLocation().x+2, formatButton.getLocation().y+2, false, MouseEvent.BUTTON1));
I didn't have any special eventlistener, is the above code ok?
Thanks,
Larry