DispatchEvent to parent not working

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Hey fellow Kirupians,

I am very new to AS3. As I’m working on a simple XML photo gallery, I am having a bit of trouble making my Slide class successfully dispatch an MOUSE_OVER and MOUSE_OUT event to the Main class.

Main.as

// add a new slide
var slide:Slide = new Slide(_slideHolder, "slide_" + no, _xml.img[no], x, no);
slide.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, imageLoaded);
slide.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, mouseOver);
slide.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, mouseOut);
_slides.push(slide);

Slide.as (extends ImageLoader.as which Extends EventDispatcher)

public override function loaded(e:Event):void {
	// assign some events
	_image.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, mouseOver);
	_image.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, mouseOut);
	TweenPlugin.activate([ColorMatrixFilterPlugin]);			
	
	// tell parent we've loaded
	dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.COMPLETE));
}

Further, I have the two following functions:

public function mouseOver(e:MouseEvent):void {
	dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER));
}

public function mouseOut(e:MouseEvent):void {
	dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT));
}

When I hover over my sprites, the functions inside Slide.as gets triggered - but they don’t pass the event to Main.as as I would have expected.

Strange thing is that the Event.COMPLETE gets triggered inside Main.as.

What am I doing wrong?

Kind regards,
Nitech