how to call a function of parent object from a loaded swf?

[5TonsOfFlax]

ziriguidum, the reason the even dispatch model does not work the other way is that events only bubble upward through the display list. That is, the parent can intercept events originating in the child, but the child never hears events originating in the parent. You can still use events, but you have to add the event listener to the instance which will actually dispatch the event you are interested in.

child:

parent.addEventListener("RESET_FORM", resetForm);

		public function resetForm(e:Event):void
		{
			trace ("funcao resetForm");
			statusTF.text = "status default text";
		}

Since parent is a DisplayObjectContainer, it is an EventDispatcher, and has the addEventListener method. You must be careful though. This depends on getting the correct parent. The code above assumes that the child is a direct child of the parent. If your child swf is still in its Loader, then you would have to use parent.parent instead.