The embarrassing solution is that I named a function with the Adobe class name MenuEvent. My bad.
William Chadwick On 1/25/10, williamchadwick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have a menu bar component > > <mx:MenuBar id="mainMenu" labelField="@label" > click="{MenuEvent(event)}" > itemClick="{MenuItemEvent(event)}"> > > Everytime I create a handler like this: > > private function MenuItemEvent(e:MenuEvent):void > > I get a "Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: MenuEvent" > > But, I've explicitly imported this event: > > import mx.events.MenuEvent; > > Am I going mad? What am I doing wrong? I'm using standalone Flex Builder > 3.0.2.214193 on Windows XP- not the Eclipse plug-in. > > Please help, > > William Chadwick > > >
