Hi Brendan, It would need to resize itself at run-time, but not to the extent that scaling the window will trigger a resize. If I explain the required result a little more, hopefully it'll make more sense! An informational bar is collapsed by default, showing minimum information. On selecting an expand button, the bar should resize itself to accommodate all of the text. However, the container itself has a parent so it can't exceed the dimensions of the parent container.
The data will be stored within a Model Locator and for simplicity, will already be available on the client. This way, the data will be dynamic and could change during use. Therefore the container will need to be adaptable at run-time. Please shout if any of at doesn't quite make sense! Thanks for any of your help, Leon -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brendan Meutzner Sent: 09 January 2006 20:08 To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Dynamically increasing size of container to fit all characters Leon, Does this container need to size itself based on it's content when being loaded, or is its content bound to dynamic data, resulting in it requiring resize itself during use? Brendan --- In [email protected], "Leon Tanner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > I am trying to achieve the following: > > 1) Have a control or container that can accomodate a set of characters > (could be 5 chars or 500 chars) > > 2) It should increase in size to accomodate the count of characters > > 3) The control or container should take into account not only the count > of characters to hold, but also the page dimensions (i.e. width) in > order to use what space is available (within the confines of its parent > container) > > To paint the picture, I have a VBox as the parent container, essentially > being used as the 'page'. Within that, a control/container should exist > to hold data thats being fed to it. The 'page' is one of 3 partitioned > screen sections within the application (e.g. nav bar, top bar, main > area) and the customer would like the 'page' to resize itself accord to > what data is to be shown - therefore making the width of the 'page' a > factor to work with. > Could anyone suggest what might be a good way to go - or even help out > with an example of a similar solution? If any of this needs further > explanation - please just shout! > Many thanks in advance, > Leon > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
