Fantastic, yes that does work. Many thanks, a much easier and lighter weight solution.
There doesn't seem to be any mention of this in the docs? now I just have to deal with those annoying horizontal scroll bars that pop up! Thanks again Giles On Dec 18, 2007 6:02 PM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > setting minHeight=0 may also work. > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Giles Roadnight > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 18, 2007 4:31 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [flexcoders] layout / scrolling issues > > If anyone else has this issues I've foudn the solution to the first item. > the problem was that a VBox set to height="100%" would stretch it's > container which would force scroll bars to pup up in unexpected places. > > The way to get round this is to put the VBox inside a canvas. If you set > both to height="100%" the canvas behaves and does not stretch it's parent, > the VBox then fits within the canvas and the canvas scrolls the VBox > > Hopefully someone will find that useful. > > On Dec 17, 2007 10:47 AM, Giles Roadnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > I have a couple of niggling lay out issues that I can't seem to > > resolve and was hoping that someone could help me with them. > > > > I have a popup with an HBox in. on the left I have VBOx (lets call it > > the controls Vbox) and on the right a text area. Both have > > height="100%". > > > > With in the controls Vbox I have several text boxes, buttons ect and I > > have another VBox (lets call it dynamic text box). This also has heing > > set to 100%. > > > > This dynamic box gets controls dynamically added to it - no way of > > knowing how many. These controls always make the controls VBox taller > > than the popup and the popup then produces scrollbars so that I can't > > see the buttons at the bottom of the controls VBox or the bottom of > > the text area. > > What I want to happen is for scroll bars to appear on the dynamic text > > box. I can only get this to happen if I set the height to for example > > 100 but then it does not stretch to make use of the whole height of > > the controls VBox. > > > > How do I get round this? > > > > The other problem is a bit easier to explain. I have a toggle button > > bar across the top of my app with width="100%". With all the buttons > > in there the width is probably about 1500 pixels. On my 1200 * 1600 > > screen this works fine - it fills the whole width. If I then restore > > my browser and re-size the window for example 800 pixels the bar > > re-sizes and button labels are cut off with ... at the end and > > tooltips. All this is as expected. > > If a user on a 800*600 screen opens this app though the button bar is > > still around 1500 pixels and stretches the whole app well beyond the > > bounds of the screen. This seems like a bug to me > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Many Thanks > > > > > > > -- > Giles Roadnight > http://giles.roadnight.name > > > -- Giles Roadnight http://giles.roadnight.name
