Comments on: Unexpected scroll results with HBox/VBox/Containers using percent height/width

By: Arnold Aprieto

Arnold Aprieto — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:09:05 +0000

As quoted:
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”

Thanks for sharing, saved me a whole lot of time analyzing.

By: Lingu

Lingu — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:10:20 +0000

Hi.,

I was using image with textarea, using vbox and hbox, image will be displayed in right corner. How to use it.. pls help me sample coding for this.

Thank U

By: flCraze

flCraze — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:01:19 +0000

Hi,

Good solution for solving this percentHeight problem with Vbox, was struggling a lot,
Thank you very much

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:13:11 +0000

Thank you!

By: Mike Rizzi

Mike Rizzi — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:59:55 +0000

Excellent. Your article saved me a lot of pain.

I was dynamically creating different Flex UI components within a VBox that was to be 45% of it’s parent (with verticalScrollPolicy=”auto”) and as soon as the VBox filled up, it would grow the VBox instead of adding scrollbars. I’ve been reading about the LayoutManager trying to understand what I needed to do, and came across your posting. Just setting the minHeight to 0 solved my problem.

Could you go into more detail (or provide a reference) as to why setting minHeight causes the VBox to now work as I would expect?

Thanks again!

By: Hal Frash

Hal Frash — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:34:19 +0000

Wow! Saved me a lot of headache as I was having this exact problem. Thank you! Thank you!

By: andrei

andrei — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:40:16 +0000

It seems the website ate my mxml, sorry bout that.
Here’s the code:

verticalScrollPolicy="on"
minHeight="0" minWidth="0">
backgroundColor="#ffffff"/>

By: andrei

andrei — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:37:31 +0000

Hi,

I’m building a flex application and i actually need a vbox to scroll vertically.
So I’ve tried something like this:

But it seems the VBox is not scrolling, but the VBox is.

Can you tell me what i’ve done wrong?

I’m using Flex gumbo build v4.0.0.6233.

By: Kalen Gibbons

Kalen Gibbons — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:45:43 +0000

This is one of those times when the Flex framework just doesn’t work like you’d expect it to. It’s good to have solutions to as many of those little quirks as possible, thanks for the info.