It will work without the space if you accurately specify both the scaled height and width.
So to scale 500 by 300 1. Specify the image size to be 250 by 150 2. If you specify 250 by 200 space on the bottom 3. If you specify 300 by 150 space on the right Flexdownloads.com Web Admin --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Alex Harui <aha...@...> wrote: > > Maybe the container doesn't lay out again after the image loads? > > > On 1/26/10 5:45 PM, "Wally Kolcz" <wko...@...> wrote: > > > > > > > Oh great group of Flex developer, share your wisdom. I can't wrap my > head around the <mx:Image> tag apparently. When wording with HTML, if I > wanted to constrain an image's width, I would set it directly and the > height would be resized perportionately. I tried this with <mx:Image> > and I seem to get a lot of space under the image. I thought the > maintainAspectRatio="true" would do the same thing as not setting either > the height or width. > > Lets say I have an image that is 500px x 300px and I want to size it > down to 250px x 150px (by only setting the width). How can I get a nice > tight image with no space under or around it by sizing the width only? > > > > > > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe System, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >
