Maybe give the boxes an initial visibility
of false and then in creationComplete set the visibility to true?
hello,
i have been using flow.as (see below), and it
works great. however
there is something that i'd like to fix.
firstly i have bound a showEffect and hideEffect
to it which increases
the width over a time period:
<mx:Effect>
<mx:Resize
name="shrink" widthTo="0" duration="300" />
<mx:Resize
name="grow" widthTo="400" duration="300" />
</mx:Effect>
the problem is, that when initialising the box,
all the subelements
are visible for a brief instant when the page
loads, then they
disappear and display themselves as expected. i'm
guessing there is
some chain of command is broken. here is the tag
for the flow box:
<Flow id="flowBox"
visible="false"
creationComplete="showSearch(event)"
showEffect="grow"
hideEffect="shrink"
horizontalGap="24" height="125"
vScrollPolicy="off" hScrollPolicy="off">
<mx:HBox width="13"
horizontalGap="0">
<mx:Spacer
width="10" />
<mx:VRule
height="100%" />
</mx:HBox>
<!-- the rest of the subelements are created
in actionscript using
createChild() -->
</Flow>
if anyone could point me in the right direction
i'd be very grateful,
yours
ed
--- In [email protected],
Manish Jethani
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You mean flow layout?
>
> // Flow.as
>
> /**
> * Implements flow layout for
Flex.
> */
> class Flow extends mx.containers.Container
> {
> public function
layoutChildren():Void
> {
> var vm:Object =
getViewMetricsAndMargins();
>
> var lastX:Number =
vm.left;
> var lastY:Number =
vm.top;
>
> var rowHeight:Number
= 0;
>
> for (var i:Number =
0; i < numChildren; i++)
> {
> var
child:Object = getChildAt(i);
>
> if (lastX
+ child.preferredWidth > layoutWidth - vm.right)
> {
>
lastX = vm.left;
>
lastY += rowHeight;
> }
>
> child.move(lastX,
lastY);
>
> lastX +=
child.preferredWidth;
> rowHeight
= Math.max(rowHeight, child.preferredHeight);
> }
>
>
super.layoutChildren();
> }
> }
>
> You should also override the 'measure' method
to enable the container
> to correctly measure itself. The above
code only does the job of
> laying out (which is okay if you're always
specifying a width and
> height explicitly).
>
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