Comments on: overriding bounds: flesh hack

By: Tom Chiverton

Tom Chiverton — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:16:51 +0000

Overriding measure() and setting measuredWidth/measuredHeight should work too ?

By: Ely Greenfield

Ely Greenfield — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:54:01 +0000

Hi Josh. There’s actually a feature in the Flash Component Kit for what you’re trying to do. The details are fuzzy in my mind, but I believe if your designer puts a movieclip in the timeline with an instance name of ‘boundingBox’, the UIMovieClip will use the bounds of that movieclip as its reported size rather than the true size of the content. That way, the adjustments to the bounding box are under your designers control, and can adjust as the content moves from frame to frame if necessary.

By: Al

Al — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:16:06 +0000

Looks like a worthy hack to me! Clipping the content wouldn’t have the same effect as you really still want to see it.

Some of the random battles with Flexes layout routines have taken years off my life, never mind the flesh…