I'm not sure what problem you're having with hitTestObject. If the objects are visible (not masked) they should be hittable.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of toofah_gm Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: getRect returns rectangle that includes children's bounds, is there an alter I was hoping to take advantage of the translation to the targetCoordinateSpace that is being done underneath the covers of getRect()...if I need to use the width/height of the parent component, I will need to do this translation myself. I can do this, but was hoping that I was just missing something here. Any idea how this problem relates to the hitTestObject() matches? Thanks again for your quick response!!! --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Properly designed UIComponent subclasses report a measuredWidth/Height > (and measuredMinWidth/MinHeight) via the measure() method, and are > subsequently given a size by their parent which may not be those sizes > in updateDisplayList() where they draw graphics and/or size place > children. Those children may extend outside the bounds and may be > masked if needed. However, the width and height properties of the > UIComponent will be the size given by the parent while getRect will > return the bounding box of the children > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of toofah_gm > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:29 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] getRect returns rectangle that includes children's > bounds, is there an alternate > > > > I want to use getRect to get the bounds of my UIComponent. > > I just noticed that if my UIComponent has children that extend beyond > the X/Y/Width/Height of my parent UIComponent, the rect returned > extends to the boundaries of the largest child. > > Is there an alternate method that I could use? My hack to get around > this is to override getRect and have it use another child that I force > to be the size of the parent, whose size I am interested in. > > Thanks! > > Another problem that I see seems related. The hitTestObject method > seems to have the same problem. It seems to be finding matches even > though the parent UIComponent is clearly not a match. It must also be > using boundaries of the children. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks! >
