That is a tough one. I is hard to troubleshoot flash forms from afar. I have spent good amounts of time getting elements to work with various small tricks. It is hard to discern which ones to use.
Alignment of elements is easier in Flex if you want to create a small Flex widget and embed it. They are both SWFs, so no real gain except one may be more customizeable than the other. Teddy On 1/4/07, Jacob Munson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No I hadn't tried that. This does move my elements over closer to their > neighbor, but it's also moving my whole form over which is annoying. I've > got 5 tabs, and when viewing the first one all looks fine. But when I > select the tab where I've applied the negative margins, the form shifts > left > by the amount I put for the margin in ONE element that is deeply nested in > the form. And it's cutting off the left part of the form now. That won't > do either. > > On 1/4/07, Teddy Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Have tried negatives values? I remember in some flash forms that I was > > able > > to reduce some elements with negative aspects. > > > > Teddy > > > > > > On 1/4/07, Jacob Munson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I suck at design. > > > > > > I've got a flash form with a tabbed interface. I can't seem to get > the > > > spacing between elements to work right. One of my tabs has a fixed 5 > > > pixels > > > between all elements on the form. Another puts 25 pixels between each > > > element. I've tried all combinations of margin:0 and padding:0 I can > > > think > > > of, but those stupid margins won't go away. > > > > > > I dumped the mxml for the form, and found this line which seems to be > > the > > > one of the suspects, but of course I can't change the generated mxml: > > > <mx:VBox > > > creationPolicy="all" > > > heightFlex="1" > > > label="Creative Brief" > > > marginBottom="10" > > > marginLeft="10" > > > marginRight="10" > > > marginTop="10" > > > styleName="group7Style" > > > width="650"> > > > Those margins are NOT put in by my code, but the width=650 is. And > yes, > > I > > > tried setting all those margins to 0 in the style attribute, with no > > > success. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > -- > > > My Sites: > > > http://www.techfeed.net/blog/ > > > http://www.cfquickdocs.com/ > > > http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:265645 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
