I've been doing my own first steps in skinning lately. I found the ScaleNine blog <http://www.scalenine.com/> to be very helpfull. And are you using the Flex Skin Design extensions <https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=flex%5Fskins> already? (you need an Adobe account to download) They really make life easier. But I have to say: I'm still having trouble with Panel skins too.
--- In [email protected], "polestar11" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please help > > There is virtually no documentation on Flex skinning. I am really > struggling with border sizes and content sizes with custom skins, in > particular Panel skins using the borderSkin property. > > I'm currently trying to skin an Alert box. I have the following > properties set: > Alert { > color:#ffffff; > borderSkin: Embed(source="flex_skins.swf", symbol="Panel_popupSkin2"); > headerHeight: 30; > paddingTop: 20; > paddingBottom: 4; > } > > My content only just fits, after much pixel pushing. It is still not > perfect as it is all squashed in. I have tried various things, that > have had no effect such as: > - tweaking the scale-9 borders in the .fla symbol > - setting verticalGap in the style > - setting borderThickness in the style > > This is very frustrating as there only seems to be 1 definitive > document on skinning[1] which doesn't cover detailed concepts like how > to structure the .fla symbols. > > [1] http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex_skins.html (also > documented in Flex Help) > > Where could I find out more information on skinning? > > Regards > Tracy >
