Thanks for the help on this everyone. I'll do some testing.
Brandon
----- Original Message ----
From: Gordon Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2008 9:23:42 PM
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Sizing Components Inside Custom UIComponents
If you were extending a Container like VBox,
its updateDisplayList( ) implementation would call setActualSize( ) on the
children, taking their percentWidth and percentHeight into account. But when
you extend UIComponent, you take on the responsibility for sizing your
children.
Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team
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From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com ] On Behalf
Of Alex Harui
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 4:40
PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Sizing
Components Inside Custom UIComponents
Parents size their children in Flex. You have to call
setActualSize on your children.
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[mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com ] On Behalf Of krakowskyb
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:44
AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Sizing
Components Inside Custom UIComponents
I'm
pretty new to Flex. I've created some custom components by
extending UIComponent. I've implemented createChildren,
commitProperties, measure, and updateDisplayList. I can resize the
custom UIComponents using any number of methods:
constraints, CSS, etc. They resize no problem. But if I try to size
a child of that custom component, no width or height is assigned,
unless I use an explicit setActualSize.
For example:
My custom component (Content) has been added to a canvas. The
component is sized using width and height properties:
var content:Content = new Content;
content.width = 800;
content.height = 800;
addChild(content) ;
In content, in createChildren, I create an instance of the Image
component.
var container:Image = new Image;
container.scaleCont ent = false;
addChild(container) ;
I try to do this:
container.percentWi dth = 100;
container.percentHe ight = 100;
But nothing.
I can only seem to resize this inside updateDisplayList like so:
container.setActual Size(unscaledWid th, unscaledHeight) ;
Thanks,
Brandon
