http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T21:38:48 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000015.html#81410 According to the help docs (and after testing), you basically replace 'var' with 'const' to set up a constant.<br /><br />So var value2:Number = 17; becomes const value2:Number = 17; defanual 0 0 2008-03-03T05:52:28 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000015.html#70537 The title of this article is "Variables and constants" but no mention of constants in the text. 0 0 2007-07-22T13:55:01 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000015.html#67630 The above suggests that ActionScript 3 requires that variables be 'strongly' typed. By this, I mean, that all variables must be explicitly declared and be given a type. This would be nice, particularly since variable names are case sensitive. If this is not the case, it would be nice to know if there is a way to force explicit variable declaration. SindiT 0 0 2007-05-30T17:10:43