Components inside components (Flash 8)

Hi,
I have an Accordion component which needs to contain a number
of small forms, each of which is built as a MovieClip containing
TextInput, Button, ComboBox, etc.
So, I build my little forms in Flash, make them into
MovieClips, give them a linkage identifier and assign them the AS2
class "mx.core.View", as the documentation says.
Then I use ActionScript to attach these to my Accordion
control, using my_accordion.createChild(). OK, fine. Works nicely.
The problem is that in the next few lines of code I also want
to be able to populate the TextInput and ComboBox components which
reside inside my accordion. I can't do it. Trying to do so fails
silently. Tracing out the path to the Components shows that they
are "there", but if i put some content into, say, one of the
TextInputs up-front (i.e. in the Properties panel inside Flash) and
then try to trace... my_acc.my_form.my_textInput.text... i get
undefined.
So, it looks like the components inside the form inside the
Accordion aren't yet "initialised" when I am trying to get/set
their values. I've seen similar behaviour before, but it's not
clear in the documentation how to get around it.
Anyone help? What is the correct way to use components inside
components like this? I don't want to have to call a second
function or put any code on the timeline or anything like that!
Many thanks,
Andy

Flash only supports a handful of html tags natively, so the
short answer is, no, you can't do that. However, there are a few
xhtml render classes floating around that will render many many
more tags, including iframes. However, these implementations have
VERY specific style and construction limitations, and of course
don't support any scripting, so if you don't have control over the
content, then it's pretty much hopeless.

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