AS3 Using Event Dispatcher

Question

I made a door/button and added as a class, i want it so when you click on it, it dispatches an event that signals a function in the main actionscript page to run

package  {
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;

    public class Door extends MovieClip {

        var direct:String;
        var doorId:int;
        var dispatcher = new EventDispatcher();

        public function Door()  {
            this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, changeRoom)
            this.buttonMode = true;
        }

        function changeRoom(e:MouseEvent):void{
            trace("door click")
            dispatcher.dispatchEvent( new Event("doorClick") );
        }
    }
}

the main page looks like this

var doorTop = new Door();
doorTop.addEventListener("doorClick",goToRoom);
//should i be doing stage.addEventListener("doorClick",goToRoom);
function goToRoom(e:Event):void
{
  trace("i went here")
} 

what am i doing wrong? seems straight forward enough

Answer 1

You aren't dispatching the event from doorTop, you're dispatching it from dispatcher within doorTop.

Door extends MovieClip which extends EventDispatcher. You don't need to create an EventDispatcher, your Door class already is one.

Just do this:

    function changeRoom(e:MouseEvent):void{
        trace("door click")
        this.dispatchEvent( new Event("doorClick") );
    }

That will dispatch it from the Door object.

Additionally, if you are using classes, every single object (including functions) declared within the top-level scope of a class must include an access modifier (public, private, internal, or protected). You cannot just declare function changeRoom, it must be public function changeRoom. Same with each of your variables.