Damn! This seemingly simple item has really been a bane of mine. I have view stcks, and remove/add children functions in a lot of places I'd rather they were not.
Thank you all very much for the help on this. I jut knew there would be a simple answer there somewhere. -M@ --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "rueter007" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tracy is right. setting visible=false will still reserve the space > taken by the component. You have to set both visible and > includeInLayout properties to false so that the component does not > take any space in the layout. > > - venkat > http://www.venkatj.com > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt" <tspratt@> wrote: > > > > And includeInLayout = false; > > > > Tracy > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of Daniel Freiman > > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 12:49 PM > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] removing component height > > > > > > > > component.explicitHeight = NaN; > > > > is there a reason why you're setting height to 0 instead of setting > > visible to false? > > > > - Dan Freiman > > > > On Dec 28, 2007 12:46 PM, Matt Maher < matt@ > > <mailto:matt@> > wrote: > > > > I have a thing I bump into from time to time and I know there justMUST > > be a solution for: > > > > Sometimes I want to leave a visual component on the screen but set its > > height to "0" explicitly, so that it takes up no space. Then later I > > want to say "disregard my '0' and measure yourself". > > > > How do I (in essence) remove that explicit height setting and allow the > > component to set its own height? > > > > In action script I cannot seem to say > > component.height = null; > > component.invalidateDisplayList(); > > > > Anyone have a nice simple trick? > > >
