Re: [flexcoders] How to use the Scale9Grid?

2008-11-13 Thread Joseph Balderson
I did a tutorial series which explains how to build an asset with 9-slice scaling in Flash and use it to custom skin a Flex component. It's challenging use programmatically unless you know the precise coordinates of how you want the image sliced up, and it has very specific usage requirements

Re: [flexcoders] How to use the Scale9Grid?

2008-11-13 Thread Joseph Balderson
scale9grid also goes by another name: search for 9-slice in the documentation, and that should give you a introduction to the topic. ___ Joseph Balderson, Flex Flash Platform Developer | joeflash.ca Author, Professional Flex 3 |

[flexcoders] How to use the Scale9Grid?

2008-11-12 Thread jovialrandor
I can't seem to find any substantive documentation on the 'scale9grid' property. Is it only for SWF's? What does it mean to add to the Application tag?

Re: [flexcoders] How to use the Scale9Grid?

2008-11-12 Thread Josh McDonald
It defines how to stretch assets, for skinning, by chopping an image into 9 scale-zones. Corners don't scale, top and bottom scale horizontally, left and right scale vertically, and the centre scales in both axes. -Josh On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:58 PM, jovialrandor [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I