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I think I need I might need to create an Event member for the Dispatching
Object, but am not sure. Any idea what's missing from the example code below?

Base Class:
import flash.events.*;

private function init():void
{
_Data = new Data();
_Data.addEventListener(Data.DATA_INIT, dataInit);
}

private function dataInit(e:Event):void
{
trace('dataReceived');
}

Object Class:
import flash.events.*;
public class Data extends EventDispatcher
{
public static const DATA_INIT:String = "DATA_INIT";
.....
private function someFunction()
{
dispatchEvent(new Event(Data.DATA_INIT));
}

My goodness this is tormenting my soul.

I've tried adding of 1 second before dispatching the event and the base class still isn't receiving notification.

I found the problem.

I was calling the dispatchEvent function from another class. For some reason
when I do this, the EventListener isn't called. But when I call the
dispatchEvent function from within the EventDispatcher Object class, it works.

hope that makes sense, I'm trying to breeze through this quickly.

I am having virtually the same problem with event dispatch. I know what the
problem seems to be (though it makes no sense), but I don't know of a good
workaround.

If events are dispatched from a static class or from the base class, they
never get beyond the target phase, so they are never propagated out of the
scope of the class.

I suppose that you could instantiate a singleton, and dispatch your events
from that using a method call, but that seems REALLY kludgy. Does anyone know
of a better solution?