I wrote up a description of the PercentProxy metadata tag a long time ago. It was for Flex 2, but I think it still applies to Flex 3 as well. Also, see the docs.
http://nondocs.blogspot.com/2007/04/metadatapercentproxy.html - Daniel Freiman On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > A really convenient feature of flex is how you can provide either a PERCENT > or ABSOLUTE measurement for WIDTH or HEIGHT of containers, and the compiler > figures out which is which for you. > > I have a component called "Content" which is composed of two other > components called "LeftColumn" and "RightColumn". I would like for whoever > is using the "Content" component to be able to supply a "leftColumnWidth" in > either PERCENT or ABSOLUTE. The value would then get passed directly into > the WIDTH attribute of the internal sub-component "LeftColumn". Basically, I > just need to pass-through a value from one component to another. > > The problem is what data type to make the "leftColumnWidth" property? A > STRING does not accept the absolute values, and a NUMBER does not accept > percentages. The framework itself uses a compiler directive called > PERCENTPROXY to solve this issue before it even gets to the data type, but > is that what I should do too just to pass a value from one component to > another? > > Thanks for reading this, > Baz > >
