Due ot some backward compatibility reasons, the container does not honor bordermetrics of borders that are not IRectangularBorder. I guess we should have names IRectangularBorder something like IBorderThatHasRectangularContentArea. It sounds like your tapered border is one of those so you'll have to either implement IRectangularBorder or subclass the containers and have it honor an IBorder's bordermetrics.
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Gold Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:46 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Sizing when dealing with custom borderSkin So what is the approach to use for non-rectangular borders? If someone has some good resources for programmatic border skins I'll happily digest them, I've read anything I can find. So let's say I've got a VBox and I create a custom skin that tapers the right side into a point. I extend Border because it's not rectangular in nature, can I not use this skin with Flex containers? Do I need custom containers that work with borderSkins that are not rectangular? On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: You may have to implement IRectangularBorder ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> [mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Danny Gold Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:23 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [flexcoders] Sizing when dealing with custom borderSkin I've created a programmatic border skin that extends 'Border', but something seems a little off. I override the get borderMetrics function to return the EdgeMetrics object representing how large my custom border is, and I override updateDisplayList to draw the border. That's pretty much all this is in my skin class. When I use this skin on a container of some sort like a VBox, if I view the borderMetrics property of the VBox, it is all 0s, and the VBox doesn't seem to be taking the borderMetrics of its borderSkin property into account. Let's say the right side of my skin needs 20 pixels. The VBox contents seem to be drawn over my border skin instead of stopping 20 pixels before the width of the container to allow for the skin. Did I miss something? This is the first time I've written a programmatic borderSkin.
