You should be using UIComponent if you know you won't need scrollbars, clipping, and probably a few other things. That's why ListItemRenderer and TreeItemRenderer subclass UIComponent and not HBox.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Troy Gilbert Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 1:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Buttons in Flex ! > Containers are very heavy. Kind of a tangent, but if I had a ui component that had lots of child ui components but I explicitly managed their position/layout, is there something lighter weight than a Canvas I should be using? Should I just be coding the object directly in AS, or is there an MXML-supported component that's going to give me the freedom to do composition without the weight of a container? Troy.
