I think you might be right. But, it seems like there is a way to click on the handles and then set them to either anchor, unanchored or center. I don't see how to do that in design view. I searched through the properties and could not find this setting either. Bruce
--- In [email protected], "Manish Jethani" <manish.jeth...@...> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:05 PM, brucewhealton > <br...@...> wrote: > > > I'm reading about the Panel Container in Flex 3 and at one > > point I'm told that this has a series of four layout handles. Each of > > these can be set to anchor, unanchored or center. I'm not seeing how > > that is done. I've used Panels but I never found anything like this > > and the help that I've searched has not uncovered this either. It > > says, "by setting the layout handles to anchor, the component is > > scaled until it is a set number of pixels from the edge of the application or the component that it is nested within. > > I think you're looking for the left, right, top, bottom, > horizontalCenter, and verticalCenter properties. > > Manish >

