Ah ha. You are trying to refer to the component using its class name. You must use the id:
pimagelist1.goGetIt();// Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of happy_christy01 Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Force HTTPService send() in child component I don't believe so: (from main.mxml) <mx:HBox width="100%" height="100%" id="hbox1"> <view:albums albShared="sharedDataHandler(event)" width="160" height="100%" id="albums1"/> <view:pImageList myProperty="{sharedData}" width="160" height="100%" id="pimagelist1"/> </mx:HBox> --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Tracy Spratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The error means that Flex can't find the goGetIt method on the variable > pImageList. That indicates to me that you may be instantiating the child > component dynamically. Is that so? If so, how are you typing the > variable? If not, how are you instantiating the component. Post the > mxml. > > > > Tracy >

