There appears to be a sparkSkin, but it seems to be used as the background. The Label is not part of the skin and is always centered according to how tall it is.
I think you'll have to monkey patch or subclass. -Alex On 6/16/16, 6:45 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Alex, that's interesting. > >The problem I see is when the menubar "centers" the text, whether or not >it actually APPEARS centered in the menubar depends on the font's ascent >and/or descent values (see image here): > >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascender_(typography) > >Fonts that support a large set of unicodes for Greek, Cryllic, etc. can >have enormous values for the ascent or descent to fit all the characters >in, which can really throw what you'd expect to be the center of the text >way off. Thus, I need to manually center the text to get it to look >"centered". > >Being mx, there's no way to skin it, right? Here are some related links >that you might see more than I do on possible approaches: > >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4624050/set-mxmenubar-left-and-right-pa >dding-to-zero > >https://forums.adobe.com/thread/660778 > >http://www.cflex.net/showfiledetails.cfm?FileID=272 > >http://www.jusfortechies.com/flex/positioning-icon-on-menubar-item.php > >Or, if anyone has an off-the-wall suggestion to jerry-rig it, I'd be >interested. > >I thought about adding a slim rectangle above or below the menubar with >the same color as the menubar's background to give a visual appearance of >centered text. This would be fine until you mouse over it - then the >menubar's hover fill color will show that it's really off-centered, so >that won't work. Any other ideas? > >thanks so much for any advice. > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Alex Harui" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 9:43:06 PM >Subject: Re: how to pad text in mx:MenuBar? > >I just spent a few minutes looking through the source and I don't see a >way to control it. In MenuBarItem it appears to always center the >UITextField that is the label. You could try subclassing MenuBar, >override updateDisplayList, call super.updateDisplayList, then loop >through the children and change their y values. > >HTH, >-Alex > >On 6/15/16, 6:41 PM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >wrote: > >>I'm using mx:MenuBar with Flex 4.12 SDK, and having trouble figuring out >>how to shift the menu text down a few pixels. >> >>Ideally this would be a paddingTop adjustment so only the text shifts. >> >>The text in question is what appears just looking the menu bar, without >>clicking, hovering, etc. over it with a mouse. It's the text that after >>you click it, it opens up a menu below it (note: the text I want to >>shift >>is the one you click on, not the text that appears after you click it). >> >>I don't want to change the margin of the menu bar. >> >>So far, I've tried >> >> >> >><fx:Style> >>.menuStyle{ >>paddingTop:3; >>} >></fx:Style> >> >> >> >> >>but this deals with the items that appear after you click the menu bar. >>How to adjust the text of the menu bar itself? >> >> >> >> >>I also tried CSS changes but didn't find anything that effected MenuBar. >> >> >> >> >>mx|MenuBar { >> >>paddingTop:3; >> >>} >> >> >> >> >>mx|List { >> >>paddingTop:3; >> >>} >> >> >> >> >>Any hints very much appreciated. Thanks in advance. > >
