Hi, > I still don't understand how that change was important. What was the input > that was giving bad output?
LabelUtil.itemToLabel has hidden side effects. If it’s not called the text in the drop drop would not be updated, this would cause tests to fail as the initial prompt didn’t show for instance. See this checkin that fixed the issue for more details [1] it basically reverted the code back to the way it way before being optimised. Failures are as follows: For mirroring: components/DateField/Styles/DateField_Styles_Mirroring DateField_Styles_Mirroring_rtl_parentContainer components/NumericStepper/styles/NumericStepper_Styles_Mirroring NumericStepper_Styles_Mirroring_parentContainer1 components/NumericStepper/styles/NumericStepper_Styles_Mirroring NumericStepper_Styles_Mirroring_parentContainer1_2 components/NumericStepper/styles/NumericStepper_Styles_Mirroring NumericStepper_Styles_Mirroring_parentContainer2 components/NumericStepper/styles/NumericStepper_Styles_Mirroring NumericStepper_Styles_Mirroring_parentContainer2_1 components/NumericStepper/styles/NumericStepper_Styles_Mirroring NumericStepper_Styles_Mirroring_parentContainer3 gumbo/components/TitleWindow/Properties/TitleWindow_wireframe_test TitleWindow_wireframe_closeButtonDisabled gumbo/components/TitleWindow/Methods/TitleWindow_methods_tester method_addElement_test1 gumbo/components/TitleWindow/Integration/TitleWindow_Integration_tester1 TitleWindow_mixed_components1 gumbo/components/TitleWindow/Mirroring/TitleWindow_mirroring_tester TitleWindow_layoutDirection_rtl2 gumbo/components/TitleWindow/Mirroring/TitleWindow_mirroring_tester TitleWindow_layoutDirection_rtl3 gumbo/components/TitleWindow/Mirroring/TitleWindow_mirroring_tester3 TitleWindow_layoutDirection_style1 Other failing tests: gumbo/components/Application/styles/Application_Styles Application_Styles_baseColor_test1 gumbo/components/TitleWindow/Properties/TitleWindow_wireframe_test TitleWindow_wireframe_closeButtonDisabled gumbo/components/TitleWindow/Methods/TitleWindow_methods_tester method_addElement_test1 gumbo/components/TitleWindow/Integration/TitleWindow_Integration_tester1 TitleWindow_mixed_components1 gumbo/core/Group/events/Group_Events_main Group_event_add_halo gumbo/core/Group/viewport/HGroup_viewport_horizontal HGroup_viewport_HL_dataBinding gumbo/core/Group/viewport/VGroup_viewport_vertical VGroup_viewport_VL_dataBinding spark/effects/Resize/Containers/Resize_Containers Resize_Containers_Accordion_FromTo I assume you don't want the Chart tests or the negative number format locale tests? Thanks, Justin 1. https://github.com/apache/flex-sdk/commit/4523974603953af1e042917f0098049dd290ffb2