Josh,
Quick question -- does your canvas immediaely contain your
hbox (and nothing else) ? Can't you make your custom component
an HBox, and then set the widthFlex on your custom component
at instantiation time, to ensure that it resizes ?
eg:
MyCustom.mxml
<mx:HBox ... >
... whatever
</mx:HBox>
And then in main.mxml
<mx:Application xmlns:josh="*"... >
<josh:MyCustom widthFlex="1" />
: : :
</mx:Application>
To ensure that "MyCustom" always resizes to the width
of your application. I'm not sure what you're gaining
by using Canvas, which requires that you set the (x,y)
points on your children directly - the layout manager
doesn't do much for you with a Canvas.
Best,
Steven
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Steven Webster
Technical Director
iteration::two
On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 08:56, joshbronson630 wrote:
> I'm having some trouble figuring out the best way to layout
> UIObjects. I'll provide a couple examples of some things I'm trying
> to do.
>
>
> Say I have a Custom Component whose top-level container is a Canvas.
> The Canvas contains an HBox that should always fill the width of the
> Canvas, even if the user resizes it. If I could give the Canvas an
> id attribute, say "myCanvas", and I set the HBox's width
> to "{myCanvas.width}", would this dynamically recalculate the width
> after the user resizes the Canvas, or would it only calculate the
> width once when the HBox is initially drawn? If dynamic resizing is
> possible, how can I achieve this if I cannot give the Canvas an id
> attribute since it is the top-level container?
>
>
> Say I have three labels in this HBox (whose width changes
> dynamically), and I want the first label to always be aligned left,
> the second aligned center, and the third aligned right. What's the
> easiest way to do this?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
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