$width and $height are the original flash.display.DisplayObject.width and height which are overridden by Flex. The DisplayObject version show the bounding box around all drawn pixels in the object, the Flex version shows you the component's size according to the layout rules. They can be different especially for scrolling content.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of flexaustin Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Dumb question; $inherited variables When running in debug mode. I have a component and when I look at the variables or properties in the variables panel I see a "[inherited]" set of variables and in there $width = 800; and $height= 1200; but if I look at the variables without the $ so width & height I see width=694 and height=694. What are the variables/properties with "$". Why are they different?
