Yeah, that's the way it is coded right now. It might change before Flex 3 ships, but don't count on it
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of polestar11 Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 5:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] How does scale-9 placement affect the size of a border-skin? Hi there I've created some custom skins for various components, eg. Canvas.borderSkin & myTabStyleName.upSkin. I find that the placement of the scale-9 grid lines affects the size of the way the component renders the skin and sometimes even the component size. For example ... if I place the scale-9 horizontal lines of the swf resource for 'myTabStyleName' upSkin very close together in the centre, it doubles the size of my tab button. Similarly, for a canvas, when setting the borderSkin style, there might be a small bit of the skin asset stretching over the component size, or sometimes doesnt fill it completely, depending on where the scale-9 lines are placed. I have manged to tweak the various skins so that the scale-9 grid placement results in the correct rendering, but this is a very tedious process. And I have had to do this all over again, after upgrading to the new Flex 3 Beta 3. It would really help to know how scale-9 placement affects border calculations. Does anyone know anything more about this, or if there are any in-depth resources on this topic? Cheers Tracy
