Thanks mike managed to get things going had a little fight with the top bordermetric being eaten by the tabbar but other than that things seem to be working as i'd have hoped thanks for the tips.
Jason Michael Schmalle wrote: > If you choose to try this, I forgot you need to include the > ViewStack's viewMetricsAndPadding in the measurements before setting > the parent window's width and height. > > Mike > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Michael Schmalle > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi, > > Yes, this seems like the job for a subclass. The problem here is > the ViewStack only measures the selectedChild. > > So there is no possibility of knowing anything about the other > children until the child becomes the selected child. > > On the other hand, if you know you have all of your content loaded > in each tab, I see no reason why you couldn't set creation policy > to all. Listen to creation complete and loop through all the > children of the view stack doing a; > > semi code > > var maxWidth:Number = 0; > var maxHeight:Number = 0; > > var len:int = numChildren; > for (var i:int = 0; i < len; i++) > { > var child:IUIComponent = IUIComponent(getChildAt(i)); > maxWidth = Math.max(child.getExplicitOrMeasuredWidth(), maxWidth); > maxHeight = Math.max(child.getExplicitOrMeasuredHeight(), > maxHeight); > } > > var window:Container = Container(parent); > var vm:EdgeMetrics = window.viewMetrics; > > // this takes into account titlebar and borderMetrics of the > TitleWindow > window.width = maxWidth + vm.left + vm.right; > window.height = maxHeight + vm.top + vm.bottom; > > That needs to be in a TabNavigator subclass after you know for > sure ALL children have been created. > > I don't know if that will work, but this is where I would start > dealing with the same problem. > > Mike > > > > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:06 AM, Jason Crummack > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a problem with the display of an options dialog > (TitleWindow) > that contains a TabNavigator and sizing of the underlying tabs. > > I've tried combinations of creationPolicy="all" and > resizeToContent="true" on the navigator and don't seem to be > able to get > the effect i'm after > what i'd like is for the titlewindow / viewstack to size to > the largest > width and height of all of the children in the stack. > Unfortunately I can't > set explicit widths and heights for these panels as all > language and > style details are externally loaded resources so there's also > no way of > telling from style to style / language to language which is > the widest / > tallest child. The closest i get is the dialog resizing to > each child > which seems a little messy. > > Any ideas? Guessing i'm probably going to have to subclass > TabNavigator > and/or ViewStack? > > Thanks > > Jason > > > > > -- > Teoti Graphix, LLC > http://www.teotigraphix.com <http://www.teotigraphix.com> > > Teoti Graphix Blog > http://www.blog.teotigraphix.com <http://www.blog.teotigraphix.com> > > You can find more by solving the problem then by 'asking the > question'. > > > > > -- > Teoti Graphix, LLC > http://www.teotigraphix.com <http://www.teotigraphix.com> > > Teoti Graphix Blog > http://www.blog.teotigraphix.com <http://www.blog.teotigraphix.com> > > You can find more by solving the problem then by 'asking the question'. >
