--- In [email protected], "Josh McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It might work, but you really should look into reading some tutorials on the > lifecycle of Flex components. Here's a few brief things: > > * You want to create child components in the createChildren() method, not in > your constructor. Your component may be instantiated long before it needs to > have its children created. > * Override the measure() function to set measuredWidth and measuredHeight, > but the actual size will be set by your container > * Override updateDisplaylist() to size and move your child components. Get > their preferred sizes using child.getExplicitOrMeasuredWidth / Height in > measure(), but set them using setActualSize(), not by setting the width and > height. Position them with move() > * There's a lot of good tutorials out there, google is your friend :)
I found it very difficult to find a tutorial that took me from the level of understanding where I was asking the kinds of questions the OP asked to where I was able to write my own components extending UIComponent. The best one that I have found is this one http://weblogs.macromedia.com/pent/archives/2006/07/writing_flex_2.htm l. HTH; Amy
