http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T10:44:51 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00002496.html#70711 They are working, but there is one problem; the values set in the Flash IDE are not picked up until after the constructor. You need to wait until the next frame before trying to access them, or it breaks everything. Either that or you can do some weird trickery with the Render event. You can dig into the source for the Flash UIComponent base class to see how Adobe handled it, if you can make sense of the beast. Ninja Squirrel416 0 0 2007-07-25T08:37:17 http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00002496.html#68396 can this be confirmed as working in flash9<br /><br />I have been using this for a long time in AS2 but AS3 doesnt seem to want to work. mark_horsell 0 0 2007-06-14T03:09:56