On first load of a component you would monitor the creationComplete event. On subsequent loads, you would monitor the show event.
For timers, look at the Timer class http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/utils/Timer.html --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Ankur Kumar <flexlear...@...> wrote: > > Hi, > I have a page which ic called when a button is clicked. > I want to call a function when this page is loaded. In HTML onLoad() was > called everytime a page is loaded. Is there an equivalent function? > > Also, I would want to start a timer which would call an event after a > particular time which would return result to the same page. How can this be > achieved? > > Regards. > > >