Well, my goal is this: There will be a ton of interactivity between the Flex variables, and the Subdivision Plat SWF. In fact, how the SWF looks visually, and behaves based on mouse interaction, will all depend on the values brought back from the database. For example, if a Lot has been sold to a customer, I need to change the color of the Lot MovieClip to Red. There are 4 other possible Statuses, that the Lot could have - and each Status is represented by a unique color. After the Plat SWF is brought in, the Flex App will loop through all 140 Lots, and set each corresponding MovieClip color, in addition to any other information I want shown. Luckily, in this particular case, I will have knowledge beforehand based on the database data, as to which Lots will already pre-exist on the SWF. This is where I need to decide, which parts I should code within the Flash 9 SWF, and which parts I should code within Flex. If I had my choice of course, I'd code everything 100% within Flex. Bottom line, I just want to code the bare minimum on the SWF side, so I can programmatically control everything from within Flex. Anyway, moving on, when the mouse hovers over a Lot, I need to have some additional information popup - like a ToolTip. I need the dimensions, total square footage, and the customer information (if the Lot has been sold). In this case, I can just have a custom component popup, and populate it with the corresponding information from my ArrayCollection. I just need to find a way, that when the mouse hovers over a particular Lot on the SWF, to signal Flex which Lot is being hovered over, so I can grab the appropriate data from the ArrayCollection, and fill in all the blanks. So with all that said, is there any other methodology you would use, to accomplish the tasks I mentioned? I suppose I could forego creating 140 variables, and just create a new one on the fly, each time the mouse hovers over a particular lot. Then I can grab the corresponding Child, and temporarily assign it to the Variable - in order to gain access to it's properties and methods. Thanks again for all your help - Mike
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Wicks Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:45 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Can't we access MovieClips contained in embedded SWF's? Mike, what do the clips need to do? Matt On 14 Feb 2007, at 16:36, Mike Anderson wrote: Plat Overview of a subdivision
