It will never show a scroll bar while you have verticalScrollPolicy="off" in the parent canvas...
--- In [email protected], Tom Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jas, > > I expect the measuredHeight to be 612, which it is. The problem is > that I also expect the VBox to respect the height of its parent > canvas (300) and thus display a vertical scrollbar. > > Thanks, > > Tom > > On May 5, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Jas Kaur wrote: > > > > > The value of height=200 is making this happen > > > > mx:Canvas width="100%" height="200" backgroundColor= "green"/> > > <mx:Canvas width="100%" height="200" backgroundColor= "green"/> > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Tom Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Saturday, May 5, 2007 5:36:08 PM > > Subject: [flexcoders] Shouldn't this VBox have a scrollbar? > > > > > > Shouldn't the height of the VBox below end up being 300? Shouldn't > > height="100% " make it fill up the area allotted to it by it's > > parent? Instead it ends up having a height of 612 and no scrollbar: > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf- 8"?> > > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe. com/2006/ mxml" > > layout="absolute" horizontalScrollPol icy="off" verticalScrollPolic > > y="off"> > > <mx:Canvas width="500" height="300" horizontalScrollPol icy="off" > > verticalScrollPolic y="off"> > > <mx:VBox id="badVBox" width="100%" height="100%"> > > <mx:Canvas width="100%" height="200" backgroundColor= "green"/> > > <mx:Canvas width="100%" height="200" backgroundColor= "green"/> > > <mx:Canvas width="100%" height="200" backgroundColor= "green"/> > > </mx:VBox> > > </mx:Canvas> > > > > > > <mx:Button y="400" label="debug" click="debug( )"/> > > > > > > <mx:Script> > > <![CDATA[ > > public function debug():void > > { > > var v:VBox = badVBox; > > } > > ]]> > > </mx:Script> > > > > </mx:Application> > > > > > > The best gets better. See why everyone is raving about the All-new > > Yahoo! Mail. > > > > >
