Why is it that 90% of the time, posting a question results in figuring out the answer within 10 minutes of hitting send....
Anyway - this tutorial answered my Q @ Binding: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/exercises/ex2_04.html I needed to specify the property to display through assigning it to the labelField: drawingCP.layerList.dataProvider = canvasB.layers; drawingCP.layerList.labelField = "name"; --Roy -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.roypardi.com/

