If you choose to try this, I forgot you need to include the ViewStack's
viewMetricsAndPadding in the measurements before setting the parent window's
width and height.
Mike
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Michael Schmalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, this seems like the job for a subclass. The problem here is the
> ViewStack only measures the selectedChild.
>
> So there is no possibility of knowing anything about the other children
> until the child becomes the selected child.
>
> On the other hand, if you know you have all of your content loaded in each
> tab, I see no reason why you couldn't set creation policy to all. Listen to
> creation complete and loop through all the children of the view stack doing
> a;
>
> semi code
>
> var maxWidth:Number = 0;
> var maxHeight:Number = 0;
>
> var len:int = numChildren;
> for (var i:int = 0; i < len; i++)
> {
> var child:IUIComponent = IUIComponent(getChildAt(i));
> maxWidth = Math.max(child.getExplicitOrMeasuredWidth(), maxWidth);
> maxHeight = Math.max(child.getExplicitOrMeasuredHeight(), maxHeight);
> }
>
> var window:Container = Container(parent);
> var vm:EdgeMetrics = window.viewMetrics;
>
> // this takes into account titlebar and borderMetrics of the TitleWindow
> window.width = maxWidth + vm.left + vm.right;
> window.height = maxHeight + vm.top + vm.bottom;
>
> That needs to be in a TabNavigator subclass after you know for sure ALL
> children have been created.
>
> I don't know if that will work, but this is where I would start dealing
> with the same problem.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Jason Crummack <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a problem with the display of an options dialog (TitleWindow)
>> that contains a TabNavigator and sizing of the underlying tabs.
>>
>> I've tried combinations of creationPolicy="all" and
>> resizeToContent="true" on the navigator and don't seem to be able to get
>> the effect i'm after
>> what i'd like is for the titlewindow / viewstack to size to the largest
>> width and height of all of the children in the stack. Unfortunately I
>> can't
>> set explicit widths and heights for these panels as all language and
>> style details are externally loaded resources so there's also no way of
>> telling from style to style / language to language which is the widest /
>> tallest child. The closest i get is the dialog resizing to each child
>> which seems a little messy.
>>
>> Any ideas? Guessing i'm probably going to have to subclass TabNavigator
>> and/or ViewStack?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>
>
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