Dynamically moving a Flex Component

When it takes me more than 4 or 5 searches on google to find a solution to a problem then for me it's worth blogging about. I'm either going to help someone else in the same situation or i'm going to highlight my ineptness a finding solutions.

At any rate I was recently trying to figure out why when moving a component around my application it would snap right back to it's original x/y coordinates. Turns out you can only move a component when it's parent container is a Canvas, Application or Panel with it's layout property set to 'absolute'.

So there you go. Happy flexing.