That's because you don't really paint or display in Flash. You set up your display list and until you change it, that's what the player will display. You can try capturing show/hide events, but knowing what can make you visible (viewstack change) should be most efficient
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of andrew.0000 Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: what is a reliable way to know when your component is re-displayed So far I have been able to rely on the implicit set thing(thing : Thing) as the "init" for a given component. Seems a strange thing to rely on though. Would like some sort of "onPaint" or "onDisplay" event. Keeping track of what is null and what isn't is a pain sometimes.

