Rick and Fotis, Thanks for your suggestions. It was the fact that none of the visual/redrawing actions you discuss were going on that mystified me. The problem was elsewhere.
And Rick, I didn't post code because the problem seemed to involve the interaction of a whole stack of view components. The problem, however, was not in the Flex application at all, but rather in some other things that were going on with the machine. What appeared to be a rather constant high usage from Flex was in fact a rather normal spike in CPU usage from the Flex app, that under normal conditions would be momentary. Other processes were causing the Flex app to hang fire, making it seem as if Flex was creating a constant load. Thanks again for your suggestions. And I apologize for misinterpreting the problem. But ... it was a messy problem. Just glad I finally figured out what was happening. -- Thanks, Tom Tom McNeer MediumCool http://www.mediumcool.com 1735 Johnson Road NE Atlanta, GA 30306 404.589.0560
