AS3 Error #1065 - actionscript-3

Question

I must be missing something simple here, but in my main app, I import my Pages class, which in turn imports and dynamically instantiates one of two page types. Unfortunatley it only results in the error: ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable PageA is not defined. (when I call Pages.load("A");)
Pages
package pages
{
import pages.PageA;
import pages.PageB;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.utils.getDefinitionByName;
public class Pages
{
public static function load(pageType:String):void
{
var pageClass:Class = getDefinitionByName("pages.Page"+pageType) as Class;
}
}
}
PageA
package pages
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class PageA extends Sprite
{
public function PageA()
{
trace("PageA init");
}
}
}
PageB
package pages
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
public class PageB extends Sprite
{
public function PageB()
{
trace("PageB init");
}
}
}

Answer 1

Exactly, the compiler plainly didn't include those classes in the compiled SWF. I've hit this wall somewhere before, when I've tried instantiating via generated string (in my case 'Gem'+an integer), and received about the same error. I went around it by creating a dummy constant, enumerating all the classes I plan to use, this made the compiler aware of this. So, make the following:
private static const PAGES:Array=[PageA, PageB];
And compile. Should do. Also, you don't need to import parts of "pages" package, they are already visible in your project, since your "Pages" class belongs to the same package.