have you tried explicitly setting the height of the hbox (or whatever item renderer you are using) to equal the height of your image?
Or, better yet, check out ely's datacanvas drawing component, youll see how a bitmap is used as fill there (sort of tiled but in a more customizable manner if i might say). --- Sascha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks a lot Amol (and Maciek)! In between I found > that I can go a different > way and use a TileList instead but I'm sure your > ideas will be useful a bit > later for what I'm planning to do! > > > > Maybe somebody can give me a hint with a different > problem . I'm loading > several small images into a TileList Component. > These images are 32x32 > pixels in size. I've created my own ItemListRenderer > where I'm using a HBox > (but a Canvas would do well too). My problem is that > I cannot get rid of the > vertical gap between a row of tiles. I've set > verticalGap in the > ItemListRenderer to 0 but there is always a gap of 4 > or so pixels. But I'd > like to have no gap between the items. Horizontally > there is no gap if I set > horizontalGap to 0 but verticalGap seems not to do > it and I've alsdo tried > various different components for it like Canvas, > HBox, VBox etc. Any idea? > > > > Thanks & Happy new year! > > Sascha > > > > > > _____ > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Amol Pandhare > Sent: Monday, 01 January, 2007 16:20 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Getting a Sprite into a > Flex Container? > > > > Hey Sascha, > > I hope this is what you were looking for. > > I have a class which extends Sprite as below: > > package { > public class myShape extends Sprite { > . > . > . > . > . > } > } > > Now I have my owns custom component class file which > I have added as > follows: > > First in the Application tag of your mxml file, > mention a additional > attribute as 'xmlns:greet="com.*"'. Here refer to > the package where your > custom component class is. > > Now use following to add the component to the Flex > mxml file: > <greet:test id="apiref" /> > > Here 'greet' is the xmlns which we added in the > application tag and > 'test' is my custom component class. You have to be > careful to extend your > custom component class with the UIComponent class > like: > > package com { > //import myShape class if not in same package. > public class test extends UIComponent { > .. > public function test() { > var shapeObj:myShape = new myShape(); > addChild(shapeObj); > } > . > } > } > > Now in the test class you can add the earlier Sprite > extended class by > creating its object as above. > > This should solve your purpose. Now the above > mentioned test class can > extend any of the Classes like Canvas, or any > container class. But > UIComponent happens to be the base class to all the > container classes n so > UIComponent could be best opted choice. > > Regards, > Amol. > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Sascha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:40:33 PM > Subject: [flexcoders] Getting a Sprite into a Flex > Container? > > Hi, > > I got a class that extends Sprite that I want to put > into a Flex > DisplayObject container (Canvas or any similar > custom made component). My > question is: > Is implementing the IUIComponent interface the only > way to get this working > or > Are there any other ways around it? A SWFLoader is > not what can use in this > situation. Any hints would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > Sascha > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
