Attached is the source for a component I wrote which I've found to be pretty useful. A sample can be seen here:

  http://qform.sourceforge.net/WindowShade_Sample.swf

  I'd like to contribute it to the Flexlib project, if it is deemed worthy.

  This control displays a button, which when clicked, will cause a panel to "unroll" beneath    
it like a windowshade being pulled down; or if the panel is already displayed it  will be "rolled up" like a windowshade being rolled up. When multiple WindowShades are stacked in a VBox, the result will be similar to an mx.containers.Accordian container, except that multiple WindowShades can be opened simultaneously whereas an Accordian acts like a tab navigator, with only one panel visible at a time.

  If you unzip the attached file in a clean working directory, everything should build; the library, the example app, the ASDoc, etc.  It's all there, along with the proper license notices.

  If this becomes part of Flexlib, there are a few more enhancements I'll make to it, but for right now it serves my own purposes as it is.

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