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Lesson 11. Creating and Dispatching Events > Dispatching Events
Dispatching Events
To broadcast an event from a component, you need to use the dispatchEvent() method. This method is defined in the flash.events.EventDispatcher class. Some objects in Flex (for example, the UIComponent), descend directly from EventDispatcher and can dispatch events without any further work.
The following is the inheritance hierarchy of the UIComponent class:
