Re: [flexcoders] bug of the minute: MenuBar, Scaling, and Sub Menus

[Matthew Shirey]

Uhm... to get right to the point... That's Crazy.  Why are
MenuItems and Menus not children??  I'm dealing with an
application that I am trying desperately to use scaling in to make it
easier for visually impaired to use.  But at every turn scaling
seems to be broken.  I just found that with a ComboBox control
scaling is also broken.  The control itself is fine, but the drop
down list when clicked on is not scaled properly.  To say that
this is frustrating would be a gross understatement.

The only thing I can think of that would be acceptable would be to
create my own menubar, menu, and menuitem controls all based on the
normal one and build the functionality into them that should have been
there in the first place.  I'd have to do that with every control
that was not implelented properly for scaling.  That would be a
monumental amount of work for me with my unfamiliarity of the internals
of these controls.

At the point I am really starting to regret my decision to use Flex for
this application.  I wish there was some help I could ask for, but
at this point I am getting the impression that this is just not
something Flex is made to do.  Thanks for what help you could
provide Manish, my anger is directed that Flex Development Team, not
you.  

Why have scalex and scaley properties when on many components they are seriously broken?

M.On 7/6/05, Manish Jethani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/6/05, Matthew Shirey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>  I am using embeded fonts, but its the whole sub menu that is not scaling.> You can see the difference in the borders and the margins around the text.
> It's really easy to see that the sub menus are not scaling at all when you> do a test where the menu has been scaled to 400%.So these are the different things we have: - MenuBar - MenuItem
 - MenuThe MenuBar contains a bunch of MenuItem's.  When you click on aMenuItem, it "pops up" a Menu -- the Menu is _not a child_ of theMenuItem or the MenuBar.  That's the reason why the scaling does not
apply to the menus.Your only option is to scale the menus individually (access them usingthe getItemAt function, etc.).  You'd also have to adjust the positionof the menus.--Flexcoders Mailing List
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