Thanks Vijay, Tim,
I definitely had two issues. Tim nailed one in that I was adding the existing child object to the new view and therefore removing it from the old because I copied a reference. I'm still struggling with the capture part. I think I need a bit of clarification on your suggestions Vijay. I think I followed your instructions. Because updateDisplayList() is protected, I had to expose it by extending the component to provide a public method to pass the unscaled width and height to, then calling the internal updateDisplayList, passing it the size properties received in the public method. I have a tab navigator with canvas children for each tab. In the canvas child I have and HBox barchart container and inside the container, I have the barchart object. The HBox supports a protected updateDisplayList() method, but the BarChart object does not. Based on your advice I stepped through each tab child canvas, got a reference to the extended HBox container, forced an updateDisplayList on the extended HBox with the unscaled size of the BarChart child in the container. I didn't actually set the child selected index of each tab which in theory would force it to be visible, but I think your advice said I didn't have to. I just got the references to the containers by myTabNav.getChildAt(i).myHBoxContainer, then did an updateDisplayList, then did my cloning, put the clone in an array in the model, supplied the tile list with the array.and voila.still only the first tab container. Did I force the updateDisplay on the right object? Thanks for your help on this, Danny
