Thanks Daniel, I am actually using PercentProxy right now, and it is purely because of your write-up. There is no other information about it on the entire web! Not kidding.
Even though I am doing it, I find it weird to duplicate all this logic that flex usually takes care of only to pass a value through from one component to another. Is there an obvious architectural opportunity that I am overlooking? When people build their own custom components, do they not mimic this feature of flex? It seems like this should be common place, but its not, and I guess I just want to know why. Cheers, Baz On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Daniel Freiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >> > > >
