positioning

[rdoyle720]

I'm VERY new to Flex. I copied and pasted some sample code that resizes an image. Very simple stuff.

To see how other controls reacted to the resizing, I placed a button under the image.

Before the image resizes, the button is about 5px away from the image. After the image resizes, the button is about 40px away from the image. From that point on, it stays about 40px away, even if I size the image down.

I'm not sure why this is happening. How can I get the position to stay consistent (5px away)?


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- Simple example to demonstrate the Resize effect. -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">

<mx:Resize id="expand" target="{img}" widthTo="250" heightTo="250"/>
<mx:Resize id="contract" target="{img}" widthTo="30" heightTo="60"/>

<mx:Panel title="Resize Effect Example" width="100%" height="100%"
paddingTop="10" paddingLeft="10" paddingRight="10" paddingBottom="10">

<mx:Text width="100%" color="blue" text="Use the Button controls to resize the image."/>

<mx:Image id="img" source="@Embed(source='../assets/todd.jpg')"/>
<mx:Button label="Button"/>

<mx:ControlBar>
<mx:Button label="Expand" click="expand.end(); expand.play();"/>
<mx:Button label="Contract" click="contract.end(); contract.play();"/>
</mx:ControlBar>

</mx:Panel>
</mx:Application>

[NOCer]

ok the code you posted works fine for me so here is my guess.

your img is not a square and the Resizer is making it a square giving it white space below the img.

try playing with the widthTo and heightTo

<mx:Resize id="expand" target="{img}" widthTo="250" heightTo="250"/>
<mx:Resize id="contract" target="{img}" widthTo="30" heightTo="60"/>


also another route would be the heightBy liveDocs (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/effects/Resize.html)


Also try giving your img a width and height the same as on of your resizers

<mx:Image id="img" source="@Embed(source='../assets/todd.jpg')" width="250" height="250"/>




Good luck and I hope you like flex. I only started a few months ago and I love it so far

[rdoyle720]

That's EXACTLY what was happening. Kind of a "duh" moment for me. Thanks for the help!