Accessing Input fields in a mxml component

[mustangsal]

In a flex app, I have an included actionscript file actions.as and a mxml component used to display a form.

The component also has a few functions to handle the form.

I'm having trouble figuring out how to get and set the form values (.text, selectedIndex, etc) from the actionscript file as well as the function in the component.

Ideas? An example on the web?

Thx