RE: [flexcoders] Grid alignment

[John C. Bland II]

Title: Message

Sounds good Senior Webster. :-) I'll look @ it right now and will definitely try harder on my layouts. Thx!

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 10:01 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject:RE: [flexcoders] Grid alignment

Hi John,

 

Try and avoid using the grid to do HTML like layout tricks; instead, think a little harder about how

you can achieve your layout with the other layout containers and with spacers.  In "Developing

Rich Clients with Macromedia Flex" (the flex book) we have a section on MXML Refactorings ...

.... in fact, I just remember that I did a presentation on some of this stuff at IBM in Amsterdam,

and it's up as a Breeze presentation here:

 

http://www.richinternetapps.com/archives/000100.html

 

Take a look through that presentation...

 

Best,

 

Steven

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From: John C. Bland II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 February 2005 16:56
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Grid alignment

Ok coo Steven. I'll give that a look.

 

I started to ask the question if using Grids was like using tables in html. Should I only use them for data layout (row duplication)?

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 3:27 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Grid alignment

I'm using a grid for layout purposes and can't seem to get one of my items to align right. I basically want two items on the same row but one of them aligned right and one aligned left (labels).  

 

Hey John - this is what we'd call a "bad code smell" and is one of the MXML Refactorings we talk about.

 

Rather than use a grid to achieve your layout (grids can be quite an expensive component for the layout

manager to deal with) why don't you look into the <mx:Spacer /> component and play with widths, so that

you can have the Spacer consume all the space necessary to push your rightmost component to the far

right...?

 

ie:

 

<mx:Label /> <mx:Spacer /><mx:Label /> 

 

Make sense ?

 

Steven

 

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