Since there is no Flex forum on this site, I will ask here (or mod just move it to correct place). UIComponent tutorials always have this graphics.draw or whatever the call is in the updatedisplaylist overrided method. Why don’t I see any tutorials or any documentation that shows how to put image data from a FILE into the UIComponent (a png, jpeg, whatever). Drawing anything by writing code is retarded. I am not going to draw a picture of a bird in code. In the gaming world, the C++ (or c# for xbox) programmer isn’t the 3D modeler. And even then, the 3D modeler isn’t the dedicated artist. Why does Flex make the programmer draw things using code? Ridiculous.