It would be best to not use containers and just use UIComponent or ScrollControlBase
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Mathews Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:52 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] addChild vs. addRawChild and performance Someone posted recently describing that addRawChild adds DisplayObject in a way that they are not included in the size and layout of the container (if I understood correctly). Does anyone know if this would be better or worse for the overall performance of a Flex app? So if you did not need layout features of the framework, would it be better to add everything as raw children?