You should be able to assign percentHeight and percentWidth properties
in AS... I do this fairly often.
PW
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Matt Maher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yikes, I am creating a component in ActionScript and adding an HBOX to
> it as a child. I want that hbox to fill 90% of the width of "this".
>
> I see on this page
>
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flex/2/docs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=0518.html
>
> a comment about "percentHeight, percentWidth In MXML tags only..."
>
> Come on, really? This seems a very troubling shortcoming. I just know
> one of you gurus has figured out a simple fix for this, right?
>
