[flexcoders] Re: Why does percentWidth / percentHeight not work with popups?

[skuteboarding]

Hi Tracy, I originally tried that, but if you are using a transition (say, to 
resize over 500ms) it breaks the transition (it just instantly resizes).

Mark

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt"  wrote:
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> Suppose on resize you call PopUpmanager.centerPopUp()/
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>  
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> Tracy Spratt,
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> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of skuteboarding
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 5:36 PM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] Why does percentWidth / percentHeight not work with
> popups?
> 
>  
> 
> I'm trying to create a popup at 100% of the width / height of the
> application. But it just ignores these values. I've had to work around the
> problem by doing:
> 
> BindingUtils.bindProperty(popup, "width", this, "width");
> BindingUtils.bindProperty(popup, "height", this, "height");
> 
> (Where 'this' is the application).
> 
> The reason I'm trying to do this is I've got a popup that I want centred in
> the view, but it has different states which change the size of the popup. 
> 
> Mark
>

[flexcoders] Re: Why does percentWidth / percentHeight not work with popups?

[skuteboarding]

Thanks Alex

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui  wrote:
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> Basically yes.  Parents size their children in Flex and popups don't have a 
> parent.  (actually they do because they are parented by SystemManager, but 
> SystemManager doesn't layout its children.
> 
> Alex Harui
> Flex SDK Developer
> Adobe Systems Inc.
> Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
>