Assuming you have set variableRowHeight="true", the List will ask the VBox for its explicitHeight then its measuredHeight. Make sure you haven't set explicitHeight or height on the VBox tag. Then the VBox's measurements should work correctly unless you have mx:Text or some other flow-based control in there. If you do, you'll need to set a width for the flow-based controls based on the VBox's explicitWidth at measure() time.
Alex Harui Flex SDK Developer Adobe Systems Inc.<http://www.adobe.com/> Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of lambovell Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 3:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Set the height of a custom itemRenderer to its children Thanks for the response, droponrcll. Actually, if I just had the VBox only that would have been fine, but my VBox is actually an itemRenderer for a List control. The List control is automatically scaling the width and height of the VBox to 100% of the List controls' row. Any idea how to get around this? Thanks. --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "Amy" <amyblankens...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > "lambovell" <lambovell@> wrote: > > > > The class below is being used as a custom itemRenderer, and I want to set > > the height of the VBox to that of its contents (children). > > > > public class MyDynamicLayout extends VBox > > { > > // .. code removed for brevity > > > > override protected function measure():void > > { > > super.measure(); > > // measuredHeight = height = ?;// I want to calculate the height of all the > > children and set the height of this VBox to that height of all the children > > combined. > > } > > } > > I think that the default measure method of VBox makes it just big enough for > its children + all padding and vertical gaps. So just leave off width and > height, and you should have it. >
