2 things.
First, you cannot put stuff in a Container based component that already has
stuff in it via MXML. You can via ActionScript.
So, write your EditorWindow in ActionScript, and you'll be fine.
Second, make the default width and height of it 400 width, and 300 height,
not 100%. Percentage widths can do unexpected things. As a component
developer, you should give it a reasonable size, and let the peeps using it
dictate the size.
So...
package
{
import mx.containers.TitleWindow;
public class EditorWindow extends TitleWindow
{
// you're goodness here
}
}
Then, you can use the code you were doing, like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<EditorWindow xmlns="gui.parts.*" xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
width="400" height="300" xmlns:ns1="gui.parts.*">
</EditorWindow>
If she doesn't work out for you, post back here and we'll help you out.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sascha Balkau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 1:40 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Custom Window Component - Is this possible?
I'm trying to create a custom component in Flex2 based on TitleWindow that
should be the base for a couple of windows that all have more or less
different controls but also have several parts in common like an 'Ok' and a
'Cancel' Button that are at the bottom of every window.
I've created a component named EditorWindow which is the base for all the
other windows. Here's a simple mxml of it ...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:TitleWindow xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute"
width="100%" height="100%" showCloseButton="true">
<mx:VBox left="10" right="10" top="10" bottom="10">
<mx:HBox width="100%" height="100%">
</mx:HBox>
<mx:HRule width="100%"/>
<mx:HBox width="100%">
<mx:Button label="OK" width="60"/>
<mx:Button label="Cancel" width="60"/>
</mx:HBox>
</mx:VBox>
</mx:TitleWindow>
And a window class that is based on this component would naturally look like
this ...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<EditorWindow xmlns="gui.parts.*" xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml";
width="400" height="300" xmlns:ns1="gui.parts.*">
</EditorWindow>
Ideally the varying controls of every inheriting Window should go into the
empty HBox above the HRule and the two buttons at the bottom but if I create
a window based on this and try to drag a component into the place it will
not insert any component code. If I manually write the component code
between the <EditorWindow> tags it will fill out the whole window and
ignores the boundaries of the HRule and the two buttons. Does somebody know
if it possible to get this working differently?
Thanks for any advice!
Sascha
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