"you need to declare the array collection as THE dataProvider of the combobox, so look to surround the array collection tags with <mx:dataProvider> tags"
That did seem to be the problem, and seems to relate to the solution I stumbled upon. But it sure is not the impression I got from the "Createing a ComboBox control" section of the "Using Data-Driven Controls" of the "Adobe Flex 2 Developer's Guide". Where on page 396-397 of the printed edition they show a similar example of a Combobox that does not use the <mx:dataPrvider> tags followed by this quote. "This example shows how you can take advantages of MXML defaults. You do not have to use an <mx:dataProvider> tag, because dataProvider is the default property of the ComboBox control. Similarly, you do not have to use an <mx:source> tag inside the <mx:Arraycollection> tag because source is the default property of the ArrayCollection class. Finally, you do not have to specify an <mx:Array> tag for the source array." This is apparently true for an inline <mx:ComboBox> control as the example worked as such, but when I moved it to a custom control to be reused, this 'shortcut' failed. It would have been nice if there where a notation to the exception in the documentation. I should probably report this, do I seem to understand everything correctly? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/Flex/message.cfm/messageid:4408 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/Flex/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.37
