> How do you know what methods your new Flash object has? That's tricky - > you can't just use my_ole_object.methods, because it doesn't actually > have any special ones - it uses method_missing. Minor note: You could probably use the #ole_methods method to get a (partial) list of known methods. Doesn't give you any information on method arguments though which is why you would probably need the documentation anyway. Cheers, Thomas.