OK, as promised here is the enhancement request, lets see some votes on it. https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-15307
Rick, I am doing transformations on the SWFLoader in addition to the loaded content to recreate a fairly complex layout requirement. Partly because that is just whats required due to the format of the data but that is also a poor man's registration point change. Thanks, Ben On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Rick Winscot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I too agree that this is a very useful feature. To the original post – > is there any reason that you can't drop back to URLLoader… and when the png > comes in (you now have access to the width/height) set its dimensions and > invalidate the size of the container? The only reason that any clipping > container wouldn't work as expected… is if the children are sneaking through > the creation phase without a size. You could certainly use the 'phantom > child' to force clipping from the start – I would suggest trying an > alternate load strategy that allows you to keep children in line. > > > > Rick Winscot > > > > > > *From:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Doug McCune > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 15, 2008 1:48 PM > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] Re: What would cause a Canvas subclass to not > clip its content? > > > > Being able to set clipContent to false is very useful. Even if there was > an additional flag to force clipping at all times, I would also want to > ability to turn off clipping at all times (which is what clipContent="false" > already does). > > Doug > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:43 AM, esaltelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let's make sure that the clipContent property is deprecated when that > enhancement is added ;) > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Doug > McCune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But then what would I do with these arcane bits of framework > knowledge > > I have stored up? My life would lack meaning. > > > > But yeah, I'd vote for that enhancement request. Something like a > > forceClipping boolean on all containers that support content > clipping? > > > > Doug > > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Ben Clinkinbeard > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Does anyone besides me think it would be nice to be able to force > content > > > clipping for scenarios like this? Dealing with an extra child can > be a bit > > > of a pain sometimes, like in my current component. If anyone else > thinks its > > > worthy I will file an enhancement request. > > > > > > Ben > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Ben Clinkinbeard > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Holy hell Batman, that worked like a charm. Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Doug McCune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Every once in a while I'll drop a dummy UIComponent child > into a > > > > > canvas and set it to have an x position of -1. That will > force the > > > > > canvas to clip it's children. A canvas only applies the > clipping mask > > > > > if it checks its children and thinks that one of them extends > beyond > > > > > the bounds. If you have a dummy UIComponent with x at -1 then > it will > > > > > always force clipping. > > > > > > > > > > Doug > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:14 AM, ben.clinkinbeard > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have a Canvas subclass that creates a number of SWFLoader > children. > > > > > > The SWFLoaders each dynamically load a PNG. When the PNG > finishes > > > > > > loading it is positioned via swfLoader.content.x = > someNumber. The > > > > > > problem is that when these PNGs hang over any edge of the > Canvas > > > > > > subclass they are not clipped. At first I thought maybe > dynamic > > > > > > content was the issue but I created a test case and > dynamically loaded > > > > > > and positioned PNGs were correctly clipped. > > > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas what the problem could be? > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Ben > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
