You definitely can do that.
addChild() is the method to use. I can't guess at what you are doing wrong without seeing what you are doing. Tracy ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guy Morton Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 8:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Dynamically creating a text object Hello. I'm stumped. I'm creating some circles in AS and putting them on a Canvas that's declared in my MXML file like so var childCanvas:Canvas = new Canvas(); childCanvas.graphics.lineStyle(1, 0x333333, 1); childCanvas.graphics.beginFill(0xCCCCCC,0.6); childCanvas.graphics.drawCircle(200,150,7); childCanvas.graphics.endFill(); childCanvas.id = "myCircle"; childCanvas.toolTip = "I'm a circle"; mainCanvas.addChild(childCanvas); This all works fine. However, I want to add some text next to the circle (with AS) and I can't see how to do it. I've tried many ways and nothing worked. It seems I can't add an instance of a text object as a child to the canvas in the same way that I can a shape. How should I be doing this? Guy
