Thanx to all who suggested help. The answer was that using @Embed doesn't cause a 'complete' event to fire. I tried all combinations of attaching a listener for the complete event inside of creationComplete, preinitialize, etc, and complete never fired. What works is to load without embedding:
<mx:SWFLoader id='thisSWF' width="1200" height="400" source='deleteme.swf' complete="onComplete();" /> The reason I want to know when the SWF is completely loaded is so that I can then open a localConnection to send data to the swf at startup. I'm curious what event could be used for this purpose if the swf had to be embedded. P. _________________________________________________________________ E-mail for the greater good. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ GreaterGood