Hi Nick, I don't if this will help you but one thing that I found with loaded swf's is that if you explicitly set height and width on the loader and then attempt to apply percentWidth or percentHeight it will fail to render.
If i set height=100, width=100 then percentWidth=50 and percentHeight=50 I end up with height=0 and width=100... if you follow that :). Something a bit odd there I think but I don't fully understand how things are sized. So maybe your tabNavigator is applying percent measurements to a loader where you have explicit width / height??? You should be able to see these properties in debug. hth Angus On 15/12/06, durnelln <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, I've been lurking on this list for a few weeks but I've now run into a problem and need some help myself... My application's main screen consists of a number of windows, each of which is a Flex application in its own right. The layout of the main screen is configurable from an external file which I parse at runtime and create the corresponding controls/sub-applications using Actionscript. Each sub-applications is loaded in a SWFLoaders which has been sized appropriately and added to the configured container. Once the screen is built I then tell all the SWFLoaders to load their content. This has all been working fine until now. What I want to do is have a TabNavigator on the main screen with several tabs - each tab containing a sub-application so that the user can flip between them. What I am doing is creating a SWFLoader on each tab (within a canvas) and setting their widths and heights to 100% (to fill the tab whatever its size may be). The sub-application on the first tab (i.e. the one visible at startup) is fine - it fills the tab as planned. However, the sub- applications on the subsequent tabs do not appear - UNLESS their widths and heights are set explicitly (e.g. width="200" height="100"). However this breaks my ability to change the size of the tabs and still have the contents fill them. Nothing changes if I set the TabNavigator or canvas creationPolicy to "all" either. Any ideas anyone? Is this a bug? I cannot post my entire application as it is getting pretty huge :-) However I have created an example application which shows a similar problem: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute" applicationComplete="doStuff()"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ public function doStuff():void { loader1.load(); loader2.load(); loader3.load(); } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:TabNavigator creationPolicy="all" x="10" y="10" width="500" height="400"> <mx:Canvas label="Tab 1: 100%" width="100%" height="100%"> <mx:SWFLoader id="loader1" autoLoad="false" width="100%" height="100%" source="BlueBox.swf"/> </mx:Canvas> <mx:Canvas label="Tab 2: explicit size" width="100%" height="100%"> <mx:SWFLoader id="loader2" autoLoad="false" width="200" height="200" source="BlueBox.swf"/> </mx:Canvas> <mx:Canvas label="Tab 3: 100% (same as tab 1)" width="100%" height="100%"> <mx:SWFLoader id="loader3" autoLoad="false" width="100%" height="100%" source="BlueBox.swf"/> </mx:Canvas> </mx:TabNavigator> </mx:Application> This application creates a TabNavigator with 3 tabs - all of which contain a SWFLoader which loads BlueBox.swf. BlueBox.swf is simply an empty application with a blue border and background so I can see how large it is once loaded (see below). Tabs 1 and 3 are identical - i.e. they both contain a SWFLoader sized to 100%. However the one on tab 3 does not get sized/loaded properly. The SWFLoader on tab 2 is very similar but its SWFLoader uses explicit widths and heights (which seem to work). Here is my BlueBox.swf: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute" backgroundGradientColors="[#9999ff, #9999ff]" borderColor="#0000ff" borderStyle="solid" borderThickness="2"> </mx:Application> Thanks for your help (if you've managed to stay awake through all that!) Nick.
