you could try positioning it before you add the 'list' to the displayList of
the container.
Ktu;
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Omar Fouad <omarfouad....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm working on some project where I have a big container Sprite and based
> on
> what I need, I add some ui inside of it. Once I add this ui, and I make
> sure
> that everything is there on its place, I align this container sprite to fir
> in the center of my stage:
>
> private var currentModule:Sprite; // the container
>
> private function updateScreen(e:MouseEvent):void {
> if(currentModule) { // when I switch to another module
> removeChild(currentModule);
> currentModule = null; // clean it up
> }
>
> currentModule = new Sprite();
> addChild(currentModule);
> currentModule.addChild(children); //some children are added to
> currentModule
> currentModule.x = (stage.stageWidth * 0.5) - (currentModule.width *0.5) //
> aligns horizontally
> currentModule.y = (stage.stageHeight * 0.5) - (currentModule.height *0.5)
> //
> aligns horizontally
> }
>
> Now assume I add to the currentModule, a masked list. What I mean is a
> container that contains 100 list items one below the other, and a mask that
> shows just 5 items and the mask's height is 100.
> stage alignment doesn't work properly because the currentModule height is
> not just 100 px (as the mask's height) but it is actually the real height
> that the 100 list item are occupying and so, alignment fails.
>
> I could use myMask.height, but I need to align the whole currentModule as I
> use it as a wrapper to wrap some components under the same hood.
> What should I do? I tried tracing the mc's height after using scrollRect,
> as
> people said that it would return only the visible part's height but it
> didn't happen. I traced and the same number is there as if nothing were
> masked.
> Any Ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance
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