Ah good catch. Yes, VScrollPolicy and HScrollPolicy can be a very tricky thing, and it looks like I haven't completely solved this on my own app (as you've noted, scroll policies should be on the pods themselves, and not on the whole app.
Will try to fix that for "next release" ;) -Peter On 8/30/05 7:51 AM, "Sreejith Unnikrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a difficult time trying to understand why this happens. Was > thinking it was coz' the way I was doing things. > > But looks like, there are other examples of the problem that I have. > The demo is as follows. > > Open the Flex Style Explorer > http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mc/archives/FlexStyleExplorer.html > > Click on the "Tabs" tab (this is to get as much as vertical content on > the left panel). > Reduce the height of the browser by resizing it. > > What you would observe is that the scroll is now applied to the entire > application and NOT the left panel alone. > The container nested within the panel does not allow the panel to scroll > now. I have tried with various nestings, enabling/disabling vertical > scrolls to no good result! :-( > > But does anybody have a solution to the problem. > > Regards > Sree > > Peter Baird wrote: > >> I¹m in the process of doing a write up on the MC Blog with an updated >> version of the Flex Style Explorer, and was planning on answering some >> of these questions. (We¹re working on getting the comments working too) >> >> I¹ll answer this one here. Dave is pretty much right on. Basically >> here¹s how those panels were created: >> >> * Headerless Panel (headerHeight=²0²) >> * backgroundColor = #FFFFFF; (yup, it¹s white, but...) >> * backgroundAlpha = 20; (this lets the nice backgroundGradient >> show through) >> * panelBorderStyle = roundCorners; >> * Setting all margins to zero allows me to place an image in the >> top and make it look like a header >> * I first place a container with a backgroundImage with my custom >> image (a swf created in Flash Authoring which also has some >> transparency to it)... >> * ...then insert a Label tag with my header title. >> >> >> Simple as that. The reason we did that was for two reasons: >> >> 1. It looks cooler >> 2. As a subtle reminder to flex designers that, while CSS for style >> is powerful, designs don¹t have to be limited to it, and can use >> some imagery. >> >> >> >> Okay, so for the actual MXML, here it is: >> >> <mx:Panel height="100%" panelBorderStyle="roundCorners" >> headerHeight="0" backgroundColor="#FFFFFF" >> backgroundAlpha="20" marginRight="0" >> marginLeft="0" >> marginTop="0" >> marginBottom="0"> <mx:Box width="100%" >> backgroundImage="@Embed('assets/myHeader.swf')" >> backgroundSize="100%" >> marginTop="7" >> marginLeft="10"> <mx:Label >> text="Style Controls" >> color="#FFFFFF" >> fontSize="10" >> fontWeight="bold" >> marginLeft="5" /> </mx:Box> <mx:Box width="100%" >> marginLeft="10" >> marginRight="10" >> marginBottom="10" >> height="100%"> >> </mx:Box> >> </mx:Panel> >> > > > > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/nhFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
