----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jmfillman" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:22 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Display only part of a canvas??


> Hi Tracy,
>
> This may work, I'd have to try it, and may be my best option. I was
> hoping to be able to reset the scrollBar so that it appears to the
> user that they are seeing everything.

Why can't you just suppress the scrollbar and add one of your own? You can 
set it to whatever you like then.

Paul

>
> JF
> --- In [email protected], "Tracy Spratt" <tspr...@...> wrote:
>>
>> Just thinking aloud, but supposed you intercepted the scroll events
> and
>> calculated whether the user was allowed to move that way and apply
>> preventDefault if not?
>>
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On
>> Behalf Of jmfillman
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 4:07 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Display only part of a canvas??
>>
>>
>>
>> I appreciate the responses, but I do not believe this will
> accomplish
>> what I need. Masking is the closest so far, but the scroll bars
>> create a problem.
>>
>> Simply making items hidden, does hide viewable items, but leaves
> the
>> container with a lot of blank space.
>>
>> Essentially, I want to override the index or whatever values the
>> scrollbar uses to determine the top and bottom of the container,
> and
>> set my own values.
>>
>> --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%
> 40yahoogroups.com>
>> , "Manish Jethani"
>> <manish.jethani@> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:41 AM, jmfillman <jmfillman@> wrote:
>> >
>> > > I have a Canvas that with a height of 3000. For some users, I
>> only want
>> > > them to be able to view and scroll a portion of the height of
> the
>> > > canvas, say 1200-2200. It can vary from user to user, and some
>> will
>> > > need to see the entire height. I'm at a loss as to whether or
> not
>> this
>> > > is even possible, and if so, how.
>> >
>> > Suppose you have a canvas with 5 items.
>> >
>> > <Canvas>
>> > <Item />
>> > <Item />
>> > <Item />
>> > <Item />
>> > <Item />
>> > </Canvas>
>> >
>> > You want some users to see only the first 3, is that correct? If
>> yes,
>> > you can just set 'visible' to false and 'includeInLayout' to
> false
>> on
>> > the items that you want to hide, and that should take care of it.
>> >
>> > -- 
>> > manishjethani.com
>> >
>>
>
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