title: How to make a small flash swf with ComboBox in Actionscript 3?
body: <p>I have a pure Actionscript 3 project, using flash.* libraries, compiles down to about <strong>6k</strong> (using mxmlc). Program handles about 1k shapes, a few sprites, a sockets connection, works great (tastes less filling).</p>
  
  <p>Now, how would I add a ComboBox control without incurring excessive bloat?</p>
  
  <p>More specificially, I would like to keep the size under 100k.</p>
  
  <p>So far I have tried:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/ComboBox.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Adobe mx.controls ComboBoxexample</a>  - simple mxml example compiles to <strong>200</strong>+k both on my main Linux Box using mxmlc and in Windows using Flash Builder 4</li>
  <li><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Yahoo Astra</a> - uses mx libraries underneath(so as bloated as Adobe?), plus does not contain exact ComboBox</li>
  <li><a href="http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1126" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Keith Peter's MinimalComps</a> - seems small, but far from providing ComboBox functionality</li>
  <li><a href="http://www.flashapi.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SPAS (Swing Package for Actionscript)</a> - compiles to 130k, but alpha version of ComboBox does not let me adjust height...</li>
  <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/asuilib/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">asuilib</a> - compiles to 40k, unfortunately this ComboBox does not provide for scrolling items...if it does not fit on screen no way to scroll to it</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Now my questions:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Is there a way to lower size for projects importing mx.controls ?</li>
  <li>Maybe there is a way to fix SPAS or asuilib ComboBoxes?</li>
  <li>Perhaps, there are some other libraries which provide a ComboBox(or DropList)?</li>
  </ol>