I'm really talking from a stance of someone who doesn't fully grok how this works yet. With that disclaimer...
In my experience, making a component display is not as simple as extending it and calling "super()" in the constructor. Size it around your children makes sense. Figure out how Canvas does it, and you should be able to figure out why yours isn't working. Or access the children to figure out the size of your custom component. droponrcll wrote: > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > Jeffry Houser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I've had similar problems when creating AS3 components. Look into > > updateDisplayList. I believe you also have to make sure that your > > custom component has a width and height specified. > > > > You can always dig through the canvas code to figure out why that > > works, and use that info to figure out why yours doesn't. > > The component really needs to size itself around its children, so I > need to find a way to do it without specifying a width and height. My > class is extending Canvas, so it should be using all Canvas's methods > already, right? -- Jeffry Houser, Technical Entrepreneur, Software Developer, Author, Recording Engineer AIM: Reboog711 | Phone: 1-203-379-0773 -- My Company: <http://www.dot-com-it.com> My Podcast: <http://www.theflexshow.com> My Blog: <http://www.jeffryhouser.com>
