http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T04:06:59 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/events/TimerEvent.html#88965 sneakyimp, They are "some" of the properties of the TimerEvent, I expect <br />that the string it returns would look something like: <br />[TimerEvent type=... bubbles=... cancelable=...]<br /><br />The string would be quite long if it included all properties and inherited <br />properties, for that you could use a "for...in" loop, i,e.<br /><br />for (var mxdVar in objTimerEvent) {<br /> trace ("objTimerEvent."+mxdVar+" = " objTimerEvent[mxdVar]);<br />} SnakebiteS12 0 0 2008-10-26T11:19:59 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/events/TimerEvent.html#81050 The toString description on this page says that it "Returns a string that contains all the properties of the TimerEvent object.". This is not true. It only outputs type, bubbles, cancelable, and eventPhase. sneakyimp 0 0 2008-02-22T17:20:16