That would make sense to me. UIComponents don't like having the parent chain broken by non-UIComponents.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesse Warden Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 8:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Re: Chrome behind content? Sorry gents, can't post the code, for an NDA project. Regardint the Label component... it's weird. If I add him to rawChildren, no problem. If I add him to my background (the Sprite you suggested be the container Michael), it gets pissed during measurement; something about anti-aliasing being null. I'm not removing it all; my guess is, because the parent isn't actually in a UIComponent, or perhaps he's not yet added to the DisplayList during measure, that somehow ticks it off? :: shrugs :: rawChildren, for now, works fine as does the extending of the creating of the contentPane to shove my custom chrome content backwards. On 11 Mar 2007 19:11:32 -0700, Michael Schmalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Could you post the code of the problem? Are you talking to me? I don't have a problem, Jesse asked a question, I threw some code at him to try and that is that. I don't want to create a second child and hack that way, I want a rawChild that is it. I was just responding to him, what I am doing works for the container I made. It's a Container subclass not a composite. Peace, Mike On 11 Mar 2007 18:08:17 -0700, Paul DeCoursey <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: Could you post the code of the problem? I think I understand the problem but I need to see what you are doing to help with the solution. I understand the background in front of things now, but I don't think that it was the wrong way to code chrome. It fits too narrow a use case. p --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Michael Schmalle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul > I'm not really sure what that is all about, Background isn't chrome > it > is background. Children need to be in front of background. > > I have a spec where I need another background behind the view children and > in front of the border. > > Trust me, I have 1000's of hours of investigation into this. This applies if > you are doing low level coding in the framework. > > Not to mention, when the container holds more then 1 view child, the > children get put into a content pane. It is impossible to get something > behind child 0 without using this hack. > > Jesse, > > with the text area, after removing it from the display list did you set; > > textField = null; > > ?? > > Peace, Mike > > On 3/11/07, Jesse Warden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Grr... works for everything but my Label. Keeps whining about antiAlias > > being null. Had this happen last night (this morning?) when the TextField > > isn't in the DisplayList, but gets measure called on 'em. Fuggit, > > everything else works; thanks a bunch Michael! > > > > > > On 3/11/07, Jesse Warden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks Michael, I'll try your code. > > > > > > Paul, if you look in mx.containers.Container, you can see how they > > > override and abstract the DisplayList API so that you have 2 types of > > > children; raw and regular. This allows you to have "those you put in > > > Canvas" and "those that make Panel". For example, the title bar, close > > > button, title, etc. are NOT something you want inside your Panel container > > > to interact with your children. If you put a CheckBox control into a Panel, > > > you would expect only 1 child to be in your container (numChildren, > > > getChildAt(0), etc.). This allows you to build container components for > > > others to use without "knowing" how your child setup works. > > > > > > On 3/11/07, Paul DeCoursey < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm not really sure what that is all about, Background isn't chrome > > > > it > > > > is background. Children need to be in front of background. I know at > > > > one point I was having trouble with a background rendering over some > > > > graphical elements that I had. So to fix that I did my graphical > > > > elements on a child item, that way the canvas background rendered > > > > behind my content. I'm not sure you have the same issue, but perhaps > > > > you could use that technique to solve your issue. Create a container > > > > with two children, one for display elements and one for chrome. Add > > > > the chrome first and the children second and your children will be > > > > above the chrome. > > > > > > > > Paul > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> <flexcoders%40yahoog roups.com <http://roups.com> >, > > > > "Jesse Warden" <jesterxl@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I'm extending Canvas. His base class, Container, decrees on line > > > > 4608 that > > > > > all children are behind chrome. I want the opposite. I want my > > > > chrome > > > > > BEHIND the content; I want the content IN FRONT of my chrome. > > > > > > > > > > However, since Container does all kinds of crazy over-writting of > > > > > DisplayObject methods and tucks them away in mx_internal and various > > > > other > > > > > private & final prefix's, I have no clue how to easily make my > > > > chrome inside > > > > > of rawChildren go backwards. Obviously, setChildIndex doesn't work > > > > at this > > > > > point because the base class owns those methods as proxies now. > > > > > > > > > > The hack, for now, is to NOT have my chrome draw a background. If it > > > > > doesn't, I can click on children just fine. That, however, sucks > > > > because I > > > > > want a background. Figured 2nd hack is to just set the > > > > backgroundColor > > > > > property to my chrome's background, and redraw my chrome as a mask > > > > for the > > > > > background. That is worse. > > > > > > > > > > Suggestions? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Teoti Graphix > http://www.teotigraphix.com <http://www.teotigraphix.com> > > Blog - Flex2Components > http://www.flex2components.com <http://www.flex2components.com> > > You can find more by solving the problem then by 'asking the question'. > -- Teoti Graphix http://www.teotigraphix.com <http://www.teotigraphix.com> Blog - Flex2Components http://www.flex2components.com <http://www.flex2components.com> You can find more by solving the problem then by 'asking the question'.
