RE: Automatically resize a container when adding a component

[Mark Line]

You are explicitly setting its width and height in mxml. It will never
change size

Hope that helps

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Cristina Constantinescu [mailto:cristina.constantine...@crispico.com] 
Sent: 04 June 2013 11:38
To: users@flex.apache.org
Subject: Automatically resize a container when adding a component

Hi,

Why doesn't a parent container automatically resize when adding an element
bigger than its width/heigth?
Isn't this considered the default behavior?

Here is my sample:

<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009";
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" >     
        <s:layout>
                <s:VerticalLayout gap="10" />
        </s:layout>
        
        <fx:Script>
                <![CDATA[
                        import spark.components.BorderContainer;
                        import spark.components.Button;
                                
                        protected function
clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
                                var child:spark.components.Button = new
spark.components.Button();
                                child.label = "Loooooooooooooog Label";
                                
                                container.addElement(child);
                        }
                ]]>
        </fx:Script>
                                        
        <s:Button label="Add Button" click="clickHandler(event)" />     
        <s:VGroup id="container" width="50" height="50" />              
        
</s:Application>