Flex 4: How to center a component that is larger than its container?

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Published on 2010-05-26T12:44:09Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 12:51 UTC
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Hi Everyone!

I am using Flex 4 Spark Components for this one.

I have a custom component that is larger than a certain container, and I need it to be centered in that container. Best using only MXML, styles and properties

This does not work as expected:

<s:BorderContainer x="300" y="300" width="200" height="200">
   <s:Button label="Not centered" horizontalCenter="0" verticalCenter="0" width="300" height="250"/>
</s:BorderContainer>

Thanks!

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