Re: [flexcoders] baselinePosition meaning?

2008-09-17 Thread Sherif Abdou
- Original Message - From: Sherif Abdou To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:32 AM Subject: [flexcoders] baselinePosition meaning? Prob a silly question but what is the meaning of baselinePosition in plain english. I read the Docs but I have

RE: [flexcoders] baselinePosition meaning?

2008-09-17 Thread Ryan Graham
content at runtime. HTH, Ryan From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sherif Abdou Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:33 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] baselinePosition meaning? Prob a silly question

Re: [flexcoders] baselinePosition meaning?

2008-09-17 Thread Jon Bradley
On Sep 17, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Sherif Abdou wrote: Ok let me answer my question, after playing around and changing it up, is it basically an Imaginary Line where It is used to align control like have the label in the formItem be centered to the TextInput control? Ryan added some useful

RE: [flexcoders] baselinePosition meaning?

2008-09-17 Thread Ryan Graham
The baselinePosition and line heights in Flash are wrong, when compared to how it's handled by Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Ascent and descent are supposed to be used to calculate a proper baseline position, and Flash does not properly calculate ascent/descent metrics. I

RE: [flexcoders] baselinePosition meaning?

2008-09-17 Thread Gordon Smith
] On Behalf Of Sherif Abdou Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:14 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] baselinePosition meaning? Ok let me answer my question, after playing around and changing it up, is it basically an Imaginary Line where It is used to align control like

[flexcoders] baselinePosition meaning?

2008-09-16 Thread Sherif Abdou
Prob a silly question but what is the meaning of baselinePosition in plain english. I read the Docs but I have no idea what the purpose of it is or when it's use comes to play. /** * @private * The baselinePosition of a Container is calculated * as if there was a UITextField using the