title: as3 - dispatchEvent from a parent swf to a child swf
body: <p>I have one main "parent" swf that loads several other swfs. If something happens in the main swf I need to tell one of the child swfs about it.</p>
  
  <p>This seems to work well the other way around. Any of the children can simply dispatchEvent(), and I can set up the main swf to listen for the event. However, I can't get the child swf to catch any events dispatched by the parent. How is it done?</p>