So today I saw that Yahoo dropped their set of ASTRA components for AS3. And... WOW is all I can say. I'm so glad to see a company like Yahoo doing this. Giving back to our community in an open source way! Its really beautiful and makes them really feel like family. Almost as much if not more than Adobe. It's just wild to see them doing almost more than Adobe does to push flash! I am thrilled to see them sharing with our community!
So just for fun I have decided to post my not so AS3 or OOP combo box. Its my first try and I built it in about 2 hours but its a great start. Its built with AS2 of course since I haven't made the leap of faith to AS3. But it works and serves its purpose. It would be really easy to extend this and make it much more dynamic and have TONS more functionality but hey its free and it will get you moving in the right direction.
So the reason I built it was it seemed like the component most art directors like to have custom designed drop downs and one of the most common in forms. All of the drop down components I have found and tried to edit have just been a 'pain in my arse'. So this is my super simple and sleek lil version. Easily editable and here for your grabin'. 
I know its not ASTRA but hey it is what it is!
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