As a pilot project to see if we can make the move to flex, I am trying to convert some common widgets/screens that we use in the HTML/Ajax world into Flex.
One widget that we have uses a standard HTML table based on percentages (100% width, various percentage TDs) that has many "date picker" thingies, which are made up of a text field in one TD and the calendar icon in an adjacent TD. In HTML it is pretty easy to specify percentage widths for the TDs as well as the text fields, and to have the table and all of its contents scale accordingly as the table or window is resized. Is this possible -- and PRACTICAL! -- using the existing "date picker" and grid container in Flex? Specifically, say that when the user's window is 100% of the screen. Well in that case, the date picker should be 100% of its maximum width, the width of the TD holding it (if we are using a grid), which say is 110 pixels. If we reduce the window to half the width, is it possible to make all of the elements of the grid -- including the date picker widget -- to also reduce by half, or 55 pixels for the text field (the icon stays the same size)? I should point out that one page in one of our web apps has 15 date pickers on it, so doing a manual calculation of how wide to make each datepicker seems impracticle. Now, I do appreciate that Flex is not HTML, so if the answer is "it is not practical for Flex Apps to have this behavior" then that is fine, I just need a definitive answer that I cannot provide as a newbie. (Maybe I should not be trying to do any layout with a grid to begin with?) Thanks, Ann
