trouble with custom 'Text Bubble' component (examples included)
- by gmoniey
I'm trying to use a custom Text component to show a series of comments. I got
the original idea from:
http://www.eonflex.com/?p=40
I've got the base case working but I am stuck with 2 problems I cant seem to
figure out:
Since I am drawing around the text, the actual height of each bubble is
greater than that of the Text field, as a result, the last bubble is always
chopped off. I have tried explicitly overriding the height getter, and adding
some padding, but I cant seem to get it right. You can see an example here:
http://test.lambandtunafish.com/bubbles/CommentTest.swf
In my layout, I have 2 VBoxes (one nested inside the other). The first vbox
shows a form where the user can enter a comment, and the second box has all the
comments. In order to ensure that the scrollbars only show up on the second box,
I set minHeight="0" on the nested VBox, but then for some reason, some comments'
text is shifted to the right. You can see an example here (look at the first
comment): http://test.lambandtunafish.com/bubbles/CommentTest-minHeight.swf
Rather than posting the code here, I've provided some links:
Container: http://test.lambandtunafish.com/bubbles/CommentTest.mxml
Bubble: http://test.lambandtunafish.com/bubbles/CommentBubble.as
If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate it.
Thanks!
