Actionscript 3 :: Add Event Listeners To Things That Don't Have It As A Native Method?

Apr 5, 2011

I have a custom class that is currently not extending anything (it's for executing specific types of queries on a database) but I need it to send an event to its parent class. addEventListener is not defined in it, though.

I notice a lot of the main flash classes extend EventDispatcher, so is that what I should do if there's no other alternative? Just have any class that will have to communicate with other classes extend EventDispatcher?

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error:
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