Custom Event Issue

Question

Hope you flex geniuses can help me on this one....
the issue: an action script custom event is being dispatched
by one object but is not being "heard" by it's parent despite the
fact that a) the child object uses the [event] declaration in it's
class definition, b) the event is being correctly dispatched, and
c) the parent object uses an addEventListener method to listen for
the event.
the layout:
includes an application component (mxml) that has as it's
only direct child an action script custom component called
FloorPlan. On creationComplete the floor plan object instantiates
an action script class called Booth as many times as is required
(based on the number of booths that needs to be displayed on the
floor plan) and then adds the instances to itself via addChild()
method. The booth objects are based on Sprite class and so they
have click events, etc. When one of the booth instances is clicked,
the click event of the booth instance fires and the handler creates
an instance of the ShowCompanyProfileEvent (action script class
based on the Event class) and then dispatches it. The
ShowCompanyProfileEvent event handler for now should just open an
Alert box.
I know the code works within the Booth class because when I
register an event listener in the booth class itself and then click
on a booth, the listener "hears" the dispatched event and opens the
Alert box.
The problem is that The floor plan instance has a registered
event listener to listen for the dispatched custom event also but
nothing happens when I click a booth instance (which like I said
should dispatch the custom event). I deleted the addEventListener
code in the booth class thinking that maybe it was catching it
first but still it wouldn't work.
Any ideas? I have reallysearched and searched to no avail. As
I mentioned, I get no errors at all when I compile and run the
code. I just don't get the expected results.

Answer 1

LensterRAD, don't know if I got the hole idea but I guess you
are listening to the ShowCompanyProfileEvent directly on the
FloorPlan, something like:
FloorPlan.addEventListener(ShowCompanyProfileEvent,
someFunction);
if this is the case, you'll probably need to add the BUBBLE
parameter to the event, so it will follow the hole event
propagation model.
something like: dispatchEvent(ShowCompanyProfileEvent,
true);