RE: VRule and HRule

2013-02-27 Thread Michael A. Labriola
Graphic primitives are more lightweight. Right? Line is not really a replacement for HRule and VRule, because you need to add stroke every time you add one. That's at least four lines of mxml to one for HRule and VRule. There is nothing wrong with making it a line, and then simply wrapping the

Re: VRule and HRule

2013-02-27 Thread Harbs
Of course. (That's what I already did…) My way of thinking is that Flex is about making these things easy so that you don't need to add these custom classes to every project… :-) On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:01 PM, Michael A. Labriola wrote: Graphic primitives are more lightweight. Right? Line is

Re: VRule and HRule

2013-02-27 Thread Justin Mclean
Hi, My way of thinking is that Flex is about making these things easy so that you don't need to add these custom classes to every project… :-) Post the code and lets have a look. Thanks, Justin

Re: VRule and HRule

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Harui
On 2/27/13 8:01 AM, Michael A. Labriola labri...@digitalprimates.net wrote: Graphic primitives are more lightweight. Right? Line is not really a replacement for HRule and VRule, because you need to add stroke every time you add one. That's at least four lines of mxml to one for HRule and

RE: VRule and HRule

2013-02-27 Thread Kessler CTR Mark J
Here is a link to the HRule and VRule. While these are the MX versions, they do have a good picture that shows what it can do under the sections Sizing HRule and VRule controls http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flex/using/WS2db454920e96a9e51e63e3d11c0bf69084-7d96.html -Mark

Re: VRule and HRule

2013-02-27 Thread Alex Harui
Yep, but the Spark philosophy might lean away from such intelligence and styles and head towards skinning. On 2/27/13 8:56 AM, Kessler CTR Mark J mark.kessler@usmc.mil wrote: Here is a link to the HRule and VRule. While these are the MX versions, they do have a good picture that shows

RE: VRule and HRule

2013-02-27 Thread Kessler CTR Mark J
, February 27, 2013 1:53 PM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: VRule and HRule So you think there should be a separate H/VRule and H/VRuleSkin? Is it really necessary to have it fully skinnable? I was just thinking of allowing to specify an alternate stroke (for gradients, etc) and allow all

Re: VRule and HRule

2013-02-27 Thread Cosma Colanicchia
Personally, I don't think that providing any possible aggregations/specializations of existing components would be an improvement for the framework. However, the framework provide a BorderContainer component that does a similar thing (except for the fact that it is also a container): provide

Re: VRule and HRule

2013-02-26 Thread Jonathan Campos
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Om bigosma...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried adding a VRule to my code and I was prompted by FB to use spark.primitives.Line instead. Have you taken a look at it yet? Agreed. I think most people just think oh that is a line and don't worry about it. I know