[flexcoders] extending the eventDispatcher class.

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I'm still pretty new to flex & actionscript coding and sometimes i run on some 
very frustrating problems. This is one of those.

I have an as3, and I want it to dispatch a FlexEvent.creationComplete when 
instantiation is completed.
yet, I can't make it work. I've read a lot of tutorials and my code seems OK, 
but obviously it's not the case.

here's the prototype I've developed to test event dispatching outside of my 
global application :

protoEventDispatch :

<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute" 
creationComplete="init()">
        <mx:Script>
                <![CDATA[
                        import mx.events.FlexEvent;
                        import protoClass.MyProtoClass;
                        
                        public var myObject : MyProtoClass ;
                        
                        private function init() : void
                        {
                                myObject = new MyProtoClass ();
                                
myObject.addEventListener(FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE,traceIt);
                        }
                        
                        public function traceIt (AEvent : FlexEvent) : void
                        {
                                trace(" event received ! "); //not trigerred...
                        }
                        
                
                ]]>
        </mx:Script>
</mx:Application>



MyProtoclass.as :

package protoClass
{
        import flash.events.EventDispatcher;
        
        import mx.events.FlexEvent;
        
        [Event (name="creationComplete" , type="mx.events.FlexEvent")]
        public class MyProtoClass extends EventDispatcher
        {
                public function MyProtoClass() 
                {
                        trace ("creating protoclass");
                        myDispatchFunction();
                }
                
                public function myDispatchFunction() : void
                {
                        dispatchEvent(new FlexEvent 
(FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE ));
                        trace (hasEventListener(FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE)); 
//output false
                        trace (willTrigger(FlexEvent.CREATION_COMPLETE));  
//output false
                }

        }
}


I'm starting to feel desperate, especially that i'm sure that it's a beginner's 
level error. As I'm the only flexcoder in my company, There is no one else I 
can turn to. I wish I could bother you with more mind puzzling problems...

Thanks in advance

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