as3 Events - Type Coercion failed?

Question

I am dispatching events from a child to a parent swf. It was working properly, until I used a preloader swf to load the parent, then the parent stopped getting events from the child. I get this error now:

TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert com.company.events::MyCustomEvent@22494251 to com.company.events.MyCustomEvent.
    at flash.events::EventDispatcher/flash.events:EventDispatcher::dispatchEventFunction()
    at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()

What does that mean? And why does it only happen when I wrap the main swf in a loader? Thanks for any help - I'm desperate!

Oliver Turner Oliver Turner · Accepted Answer · 2009-09-12T19:40:35

Sounds like an ApplicationDomain issue.

Try something like this:

public function loadSWF(url:String):void 
{
    var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
    var cxt:LoaderContext = new LoaderContext();
        cxt.applicationDomain = ApplicationDomain.currentDomain;

    var ldr:Loader = new Loader();
        ldr.load(req, cxt);
}

as3 Events - Type Coercion failed?

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