Horribly embarrassed to ask, but

…I must because I simply can’t figure it out.

All I want to do is have a scrollPane component on the stage and within that component I would like to have a movieclip that is essentially a list, and each list item is a button to be clicked on. I have no problem doing this if I have buttons within a movieclip, but having them in a scrollPane produces the following error:

1119: Access of possibly undefined property mcButtons through a reference with static type fl.containers:ScrollPane.

It seems that I am unable to use the scrollPane component as if it were a movieclip and to use dot syntax to access it’s content.

What simple little thing am I missing here?