What you're asking is doable, but you're definitinely going the wrong way about it. Put the two vboxes in a canvas that doesn't have its height set, and set the height on each vbox to 100%. Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"; layout="absolute"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ import mx.controls.Button; import mx.core.Container; private var buttonCount:Number = 2; private function addTo(container : Container) : void { var b : Button = new Button(); b.label = "Button " + ++buttonCount; container.addChild(b); } private function removeFrom(container : Container) : void { container.removeChildAt(container.numChildren - 1); } ]]> </mx:Script> <mx:HBox top="5" horizontalCenter="0"> <mx:Button label="Remove LHS" click="removeFrom(lhs)"/> <mx:Button label="Remove RHS" click="removeFrom(rhs)"/> </mx:HBox> <mx:Canvas borderColor="green" borderThickness="3" borderStyle="solid"> <mx:VBox width="100" id="lhs" borderColor="blue" borderThickness="3" borderStyle="solid" height="100%"> <mx:Button label="Button 1" click="addTo(lhs)"/> </mx:VBox> <mx:VBox width="100" left="110" id="rhs" borderColor="red" borderThickness="3" borderStyle="solid" height="100%"> <mx:Button label="Button 2" click="addTo(rhs)"/> </mx:VBox> </mx:Canvas> </mx:Application> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:21 AM, tchredeemed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I have two VBoxes, side by side, that need to both be the height > of the biggest of the two (children added dynamically on show). > > I do it this way: > leftVBox.minHeight = rightVBox.height; > rightVBox.minHeight = leftVBox.height; > > (if this is a stupid way to do it, let me know). > > The problem is this. > > When I add the children, and switch view states, I remove the children. > > If I come back to that page, and add a different set of children, I > only want them to be the biggest they have to be, but I cannot get > them to resize back down to the right height, they hold the height of > the biggest set of children that has been added since launch time. > > Any ideas? > > > ------------------------------------ > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.comYahoo! Groups > Links > > > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." :: Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald :: 0437 221 380 :: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
