If you give the component an id, you can access the public members through that id:
myComponent.init(); Tracy ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TJ Downes Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:29 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Trigger a method a method in a child document Im looking for a way to trigger a method in a child document, namely a custom component, from the parent document. For example, when I click the tab in the parent document that displays my custom component I want the parent document to trigger the init() method in the component to reset itself. Since there is no childDocument property, is there another way to handle this?