ComboBox sizing

if it's any consolation, it took me years to figure out how to control components.

eventually, i realized that components are often combinations of other components.  for example, the combobox is a text input component and a list component.  if you look at the adobe actionscript 3.0 reference, it tells you that when you check combobox:

if you wanted to control the textinput part of the combobox, you use its textField property:

and to figure out what you can do with that, you check the textinput section of the help file.

to control the dropdown part of the combobox, you use the combobox'es dropdown property and then check the list component's api to see what you can do with that.

i can't remember all that stuff (ie, that textField and dropdown are the needed properties), so i have a link to the 3.0 reference on my desktop and i just read/scan to find what i want.