flash (macromedia): I'm working in Flash 8. I have a movie clip that is a drawer that opens up
with some combo boxes on it. I entered 3 labels but when I publish my swf and
open the drawer, the combo boxes are blank. I can click on the boxes to open
them and see my list, but even when I select one from the list the label does
not show up selected when the box is closed. All the boxes have different
instance names.

I put a combo box at the top level of my file in "Scene 1", and it works. Any
ideas why the combo boxes inside the clip aren't showing their labels?

I have the same problem!!! :(

I later discovered that it was result of using a layer mask above it. I took it
out from under a mask layer, and it worked finem, but it screwed up my plan of
having little drawers that had settings on them come out from under some of my
data presentation widgets . I think it's still a bug though, because there is
no reason components shouldn't work if they are masked. It seems there would be
a lot of cases where components used as settings might be hidden in a drawer of
some sort under various UI elements.:frown;