skinning a ScrollPanel

[wayne]

Hi David,

I'm trying to create a ScrollPanel with the following characteristics:

1. Bitmap image (from my Library) as the scroll handle
2. scrollbar behavior: no stretching/resizing of the handle, even as
the scrollrect changes

I found 2 properties that I thought sounded promising, but neither
does the trick:

myInstance.scrollbar.fixedHandleSize
myInstance.scrollbar.scrollTarget

Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Wayne

[tkdave]

Make a subclass of Slider (or VSlider) and override either the
drawHandle() method or the handleSize getter which returns the handle
height for Vslider and handle width for hsliders.

fixedHandleSize only applies to sliders that are not scrollbars.
scrollTarget is the IScrollable reference that makes a slider a
scrollbar.

This seems to be a common request, so I really need to just tell it to
use fixedHandleSize for scrollbars, too. There is a reason I haven't
done this. I'm just not sure what it is.

You'll have to excuse me, as I've been deep in Flex 4 for the last 5
months and haven't been giving my own UI framework much attention
lately. That may change soon, however, as Flex is a tad slow in the
runtime performance department.

-dk

[Wayne Fidler]

David, thanks so much for the tips. I'll have a chance to try this out today or tomorrow, as usual I appreciate the help.

~wayne

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[Wayne Fidler]

David your advice worked perfectly. Thanks so much for the help.

~wayne