>Can you set the colors on this sprite so that you can't see it? >(leave it visible, just camouflage it.
That's pricisely the kludge I'm running now. And it works, so I'm not going to fight it any longer. The QA Mode status text sprite is on-stage, but is shrunk to a height of only a few pixels (so that no text shows), and the scroll bar (which is evidently necessary) is just barely off-stage and not visible. At the point I need this, it doesn't show anything. >I presume you are not doing this in your parsing, etc.? > >repeat with var = 1 to blah.count Well, Buzz...the parsing is long since done at the point of my problems. The parsing is a split second thing earlier in the start-up of the engine. There's just some DOM access going on in the object creation loop -- no parsing, per se, going on -- and the repeat block iterates to a maximum held within a property variable of the ItemManager object: property miNumItems miNumItems = goXML.getDocumentElement().getAttribute("NumItems") repeat with i = 1 to miNumItems ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Christopher Watson Sr. Software Engineer Interactive Web Media Lightspan, Inc. Tel 858.824.8457 Fax 858.824.8001 ___________________________ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]