Placing something off stage in flex

Hi there, I am looking to make a state where an object or
component starts "off stage" and advances to a state in which it
will be "on stage". This was pretty easy to do in flash, however I
tried putting something off stage with AS, and my flex app just
added a scroll bar. I know i could just over ride the scroll bar to
not show, however I am not sure if I might actually need it later.
I am sure it must be a pretty simple thing to do - but I am just
not sure in flex!

Thanks for the reply! I figured thatr one out last night, but
also had to kill the horizontal scollbar to get it to work.

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