Save time by using this highly customizable drop down box in your AS3 Flash projects. You can customize the elements, the size and all colors from XML. In order to detect the selected value, or the selected id of an item you have two functions which can be called from outside the component: mcDropdown.getSelectedItem(); mcDropdown.getSelectedItemValue(); It's up to you to decide the movieclip name. We used mcDropdown. You can have more instances of the component in your project, so you would want to name them differently.