as3 - dispatch mouse event from external class - actionscript-3

Question

I am having problems understanding correctly how to dispatch events and capture them in another class.
In this case, I am trying to emulate a mouse click dispatched from an "clickM" class.
On stage I have 2 movieclips to test, a custom cursor and the listeners to capture the click event.
clickM:
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import flash.events.Event; //dispatcher
import flash.events.MouseEvent;// mouse event
public class clickM extends MovieClip {
private var delay: uint = 3000;
private var repeat: uint = 0; //se va por todo el tiempo
private var myTimer: Timer = new Timer(delay, repeat);
public function clickM() {
myTimer.start();
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, timerHandler);
}
private function timerHandler(e: TimerEvent): void {
//repeat--;
//statusTextField.text = ((delay * repeat) / 1000) + " seconds left.";
trace ( "simulate click...");
//dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.CLICK));
this.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.CLICK, true, false));
}
}
}
Stage code, rojo & morado are movieclips:
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, myFunction);
var mano: clickM = new clickM();
mano.name = "mano";
addChild (mano);
morado.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, cl);
rojo.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, cl);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, cl);
function myFunction(event: Event) {
mano.x = mouseX;
mano.y = mouseY;
}
function cl(e: MouseEvent) {
trace("click over " + e.target.name);
}
If I click over morado or rojo, there's no problem - I can get their names. If I just let the code run, I can't get their names, I just get "mano", which is the custom cursor I'm using.
How can I get the desired behavior?
Regards.

Answer 1

Add mouseEnabled=false; inside clickM constructor. This should make Flash to ignore your mano in the event dispatch phase, so the underlying object should be the primary target if there's any, otherwise the target will be the stage. If your custom cursor contains more movie clips, you should also add mouseChildren=false;.
public function clickM() {
mouseEnabled=false;
// possibly add this too
mouseChildren=false;
myTimer.start();
myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, timerHandler);
}