Yeah, my co-worker and I actually joked about doing this in Flex, because I was having so many problems and I'd have more control. But we haven't gone the Flex route yet and don't have a copy of Builder.
On 1/4/07, Teddy Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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:265651 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
