Wow, gradients are so last decade. I would lose the gradients and your problem may go away. Just a thought. Cheers. Erik
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 13, 2018, at 8:18 PM, bilbosax <waspenc...@comcast.net> wrote: > > I use the mobileGrid component in my mobile AIR app and it works great. I am > really happy with it...mostly. The problem I am running into is the column > widths. When I set the column widths using percentages, I get small single > pixel vertical lines that show up in some of the column boundaries in the > header, but not all of them. Here is an image so you can see the problem: > > <http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/file/t999/image752.jpg> > > As you can see, the left header divider has no artifact, but the next three > all have a vertical line artifact. The nice part of doing percentages is > that it looks correct on every device, the column widths are all > appropriately sized. The bad part of it is that your app looks like it has > small unwanted and random visual artifacts, very unprofessional. > > I have found an alternative that displays the header with no artifacts, but > it is unreliable. If you manually set the widths and round the width values > in your calculations, you get a very smooth header with no visual artifacts. > But for some reason, this component was made so that you have to adjust for > for screenDPI when you calculate them. Because screenDPI is not always > properly reported, sometimes you get columns that hang off the side of the > screen. So you have to make a choice. Do I want to have proper looking > headers, and run the risk of not having all of my data shown, or do I want > to have visual artifacts but at least my users will be able to see > everything? > > Neither option sounds good to me, but obviously, I have to display my data. > My only option that I can think of is to skin the header to have a black bar > on the right edge so even if the artifact shows up, it will blend in. > > What I really don't understand is why I can't just take the width of my app > and multiply it time a percentage value, round it, and set it to the width > of my column??? If you do the example below on the mobileGrid, it does not > create a column that is one tenth of the screen width: > > column1.width = Math.round(appWidth * .1); > > That is because the documentation says that width takes into consideration > DPI: > > "Width value is expressed in current applicationDPI, or at 160 DPI if > applicationDPI is not set." > > I am not sure why this approach was taken, but that is where it stands > today. > > So two questions: > > 1) has anyone run into this problem and can offer up a possible solution? > My app is so close to being complete and this is the last little glitch I am > trying to iron out. > > 2) Does anyone know how to get in touch with Maurice Amsellem, as I believe > he did a lot of the development on this experimental component? He posted > about it alot on this forum a couple years back. > > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/ >
