Thanks Josh This example was a simple case. What I actually want to is have my component behave like a container where it centres its child items. In retrospect I would have to extend from the Container class.
The absoulte size would fix the problem (in that the item re-draws would occur underneath each other & would not be visible). I was just worried that I was getting a lot of outdated screen objects that aren't being cleaned up when drawing underneath each other. But I suppose it's only 1 graphics layer. Cheers Tracy --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Josh McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Components don't set explicitWidth and explicitHeight on themselves, they're > (optionally) set by the container, and actual sizing is set by the container > through setActualSize(). > > Override measure(), and set measuredWidth and measuredHeight to match your > label, and your problems may go away. Also in updateDisplayList you want to > set the actual size of the label to the minimu of it's measured size and > unscaledWidth x unscaledHeight. > > -Josh >
