That's because Canvas has code that sizes its children, but UIComponent does not.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sid Maskit Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: problem adding images to UIComponents using AS3 This works too: <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.controls.Image; import mx.containers.Canvas; [Embed(source="/images/splash.png")] [Bindable] private var myHelpImageSource:Class; private function initUI():void { var myCanvas2:Canvas = new Canvas(); var myHelpImage:Image = new Image(); myHelpImage.source = myHelpImageSource; myCanvas2.addChild(myHelpImage); myCanvas.addChild(myCanvas2); } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:Canvas id="myCanvas" width="600" height="500" /> So maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not seeing why you need either UIComponent or Sprite, as things seem to work and be simpler replacing the two of them with canvas Sid Maskit Partner CraftySpace Better Websites for a Better World http://www.CraftySpace.com blog: http://smaskit.blogspot.com/ ----- Original Message ---- From: Sid Maskit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:41:37 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: problem adding images to UIComponents using AS3 I'm not going to pretend to understand this, but here's a little more information which may be useful. This works: myCanvas.addChild( myHelpImage) ; This doesn't work: myHelpUIComponent. addChild( myHelpImage) ; myCanvas.addChild( myHelpUIComponen t); Which leads me to suspect that the problem is with the UIComponent rather than the sprite, but again I have no idea really. Sid Maskit Partner CraftySpace Better Websites for a Better World http://www.CraftySp ace.com blog: http://smaskit. blogspot. com/ ----- Original Message ---- From: Jason <jason.merrill@ bankofamerica. com> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:18:09 PM Subject: [flexcoders] Re: problem adding images to UIComponents using AS3 Oh, and also an article which discusses the problem adding a sprite as a child to a Flex container: http://www.sebastia anholtrop. com/archives/ 3 <http://www.sebastiaanholtrop.com/archives/3> Jason
