...and if you have columns of varying percentage-based widths, you should be able to proportionally tweak those "100%"'s in order to make the V/HBox setup work just the same as your HTML table.
-Mark Hawley > > From: "Dimitrios Gianninas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/03/28 Wed AM 09:14:53 CST > To: <flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> > Subject: RE: [flexcoders] HTML-like Table/Textbox behavior possible? > > Yes you can, but I recommend you do not use the Grid container, just VBoxes > and HBoxes will allow you to place items as you need them. > > <mx:VBox width="100%"> > <mx:DateField width="100%"/> > <mx:DateField width="100%"/> > </mx:VBox> > > Dimitrios Gianninas > Developer > Optimal Payments Inc. > > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > missgiggygirl > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:05 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] HTML-like Table/Textbox behavior possible? > > > > As a pilot project to see if we can make the move to flex, I am trying > to convert some common widgets/screens that we use in the HTML/Ajax > world into Flex. > > One widget that we have uses a standard HTML table based on > percentages (100% width, various percentage TDs) that has many "date > picker" thingies, which are made up of a text field in one TD and the > calendar icon in an adjacent TD. In HTML it is pretty easy to specify > percentage widths for the TDs as well as the text fields, and to have > the table and all of its contents scale accordingly as the table or > window is resized. > > Is this possible -- and PRACTICAL! -- using the existing "date picker" > and grid container in Flex? > > Specifically, say that when the user's window is 100% of the screen. > Well in that case, the date picker should be 100% of its maximum > width, the width of the TD holding it (if we are using a grid), which > say is 110 pixels. If we reduce the window to half the width, is it > possible to make all of the elements of the grid -- including the date > picker widget -- to also reduce by half, or 55 pixels for the text > field (the icon stays the same size)? > > I should point out that one page in one of our web apps has 15 date > pickers on it, so doing a manual calculation of how wide to make each > datepicker seems impracticle. > > Now, I do appreciate that Flex is not HTML, so if the answer is "it is > not practical for Flex Apps to have this behavior" then that is fine, > I just need a definitive answer that I cannot provide as a newbie. > (Maybe I should not be trying to do any layout with a grid to begin with?) > > Thanks, > Ann > > > > > > -- > WARNING > ------- > This electronic message and its attachments may contain confidential, > proprietary or legally privileged information, which is solely for the use of > the intended recipient. No privilege or other rights are waived by any > unintended transmission or unauthorized retransmission of this message. If > you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if you have received > it in error, you should immediately stop reading this message and delete it > and all attachments from your system. The reading, distribution, copying or > other use of this message or its attachments by unintended recipients is > unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, > please notify the sender. > > AVIS IMPORTANT > -------------- > Ce message électronique et ses pièces jointes peuvent contenir des > renseignements confidentiels, exclusifs ou légalement privilégiés destinés au > seul usage du destinataire visé. L'expéditeur original ne renonce à aucun > privilège ou à aucun autre droit si le présent message a été transmis > involontairement ou s'il est retransmis sans son autorisation. Si vous > n'êtes pas le destinataire visé du présent message ou si vous l'avez reçu par > erreur, veuillez cesser immédiatement de le lire et le supprimer, ainsi que > toutes ses pièces jointes, de votre système. La lecture, la distribution, la > copie ou tout autre usage du présent message ou de ses pièces jointes par des > personnes autres que le destinataire visé ne sont pas autorisés et pourraient > être illégaux. Si vous avez reçu ce courrier électronique par erreur, > veuillez en aviser l'expéditeur. > > > -- John Mark Hawley The Nilbog Group 773.968.4980 (cell) -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
