This post is almost 4 years old so forgive me if I’m forgetful… The magic happens in this line : EventDispatcher.initialize(this); This is inbuilt AS2 functionality, it basically “hijacks” your class and overrides those empty functions you see in the code snippet.

I really don’t know if you have to wait a frame or not.

Also the addListener syntax… check how AS2 components do it, I’m guessing this works the same way. I really do feel the pain you must be going through in having to write as2

Good luck!

addEventListener( ?? , functionToHandle??)
And do you have to set the listener a frame after instantiating a class????

Can somebody help me please?

I guess you could extend MovieClip with a EventDispatchingMovieClip like so:

import mx.events.EventDispatcher;

class EventDispatchingMovieClip extends MovieClip{

public function EventDispatchingMovieClip(){
EventDispatcher.initialize(this);
}

public function dispatchEvent(){}
public function addEventListener(){}
public function removeEventListener(){}
}

(sorry about the formatting, I thought I had a code formatting plugin but it seems to be malfunctioning ).

Then, whenever you need dispatching, instead of extending MovieClip, extend EventDispatchingMovieClip… Purists prefer composition over inheritance, but let’s face it, this was a hack to begin with