minWidth did the trick. thanks very much. add me to the long list of people who owe part of their sanity to you.
--- In [email protected], Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Set minWidth=0 on your component. You may also need to fix its size based on its parent's size > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jimmy5804 > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 10:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [flexcoders] Scrolling with custom item renderers > > > I have a VBox-based custom component (call it 'A') that displays some > data in a list of windowshade-ish item renderers. My problem is A > doesn't scroll when its child renderers exceed its dimensions. Here > are the relevant factors as far as I'm aware: > > -scrollpolicy is set to "auto" ("on" shows a disabled bar) > -as far as I can tell, measure() is implemented properly in the item > renderers. > - A is nested inside another Box. > - when I add more children to my A component, the value of > A.getExplicitOrMeasuredWidth() continues to increase although it > visually does not. > > Because of this last issue, I'm wondering if A is getting clipped by > it's parent container which has scrollpolicy set to "off". If this is > the problem, how can I show scrollbars on the inner container and not > on the outer? Do I need to manually size A to match the dimensions of > its parent? > > TIA >
