My Bad buddy, sorry!
UIComponent.addChild is an inherited Flash thing, not part of Flex, and when
you use it if it works at all, things don't go into Flex's display tree
properly, and all sorts of pain ensues. Try extending Canvas instead of
UIComponent. The magic you need lives in Container.
-J
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Richard Rodseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd love to wrap up this task. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
>
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Richard Rodseth <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]<rrodseth%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > I'm afraid I'm still struggling with this. The classes below work
> > (more or less) if I supply a large button as "content", but if I try a
> > VBox it appears to shrink to nothing. Any ideas? Hopefully the
> > formatting survived.
> >
> > <view:ScaleOrCenterView width="100%" height="100%" >
> > <mx:VBox borderStyle="solid" borderColor="red"
> > horizontalScrollPolicy="off" verticalScrollPolicy="off">
> > <mx:Button label="Test" width="400" height="400"/>
> > </mx:VBox>
> > </view:ScaleOrCenterView>
> >
> >
> > [DefaultProperty("content")]
> > public class ScaleOrCenterView extends UIComponent
> > {
> > private var _contentHolder:ScaleToFitContentHolder = new
> > ScaleToFitContentHolder();;
> > private var _content:UIComponent;
> >
> > public function ScaleOrCenterView()
> > {
> > super();
> > }
> >
> > override protected function createChildren():void {
> > super.createChildren();
> > this.addChild(_contentHolder);
> > }
> >
> > [Inspectable]
> > public function set content(value:UIComponent):void {
> > if (_content != null) {
> > _contentHolder.removeChild(_content);
> > }
> > _content = value;
> > if (_content != null) {
> > _contentHolder.addChild(_content);
> > }
> > this.invalidateSize();
> > }
> >
> > override protected function updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth:Number,
> > unscaledHeight:Number):void
> > {
> > super.updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight);
> >
> > var contentWidth:Number = _content.getExplicitOrMeasuredWidth();
> > var contentHeight:Number = _content.getExplicitOrMeasuredHeight();
> >
> > var xScale:Number = (unscaledWidth / contentWidth);
> > var yScale:Number = (unscaledHeight / contentHeight);
> >
> > _contentHolder.setActualSize(unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight);
> >
> > _contentHolder.allowInvalidateSize = false;
> > if (xScale < 1 || yScale < 1) {
> > _contentHolder.scaleX = xScale
> > _contentHolder.scaleY = yScale
> > } else {
> > _contentHolder.scaleX = 1.0;
> > _contentHolder.scaleY = 1.0;
> > }
> > _contentHolder.allowInvalidateSize = true;
> >
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > public class ScaleToFitContentHolder extends UIComponent
> > {
> > public var allowInvalidateSize:Boolean = true;
> >
> > public function ScaleToFitContentHolder()
> > {
> > }
> >
> > override protected function measure():void
> > {
> > super.measure();
> > }
> >
> > override public function invalidateSize():void
> > {
> > if (allowInvalidateSize)
> > super.invalidateSize();
> > }
> >
> > }
> > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Alex Harui <[EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]<aharui%40adobe.com>>
> wrote:
> >> One way is to block invalidateSize when scaling the child. See
> >> ListBaseContentHolder
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >>
> >
>
>
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