[thelist] Laying out components in Flash
joe
stowaway at uklinux.net
Tue May 18 16:01:41 CDT 2004
Marcus Andersson wrote:
> I need a way to position components relative to other components (the
> way you mostly do in HTML) and also inside parent containers (a la
> divs) which would result in that if you move the container you also
> move it's children. I should also say that it must be possible to do
> this from script (if possible). Is it possible or do I have to do some
> layout manager stuff (a la layout managers in Java)? All I seem to be
> able to do is position the components absolute :(
>
> Any help/pointers is much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> /Marcus
hi Marcus
You don't give much (any) detail about how you are instantiating any of
the components you're using, but when you do so you can access it's
properties as you would any movie clip. A component with the instance
name myComp has properties like:
myComp._x
myComp._y
myComp._width
myComp._height
so if you want to position a new instance of myNextComp relative to
myComp, you can calculate the latter's position and width and place the
former accordingly.
you may also find some useful info by looking at the Flash Help on the
localToGlobal and globalToLocal methods too.
HTH
joe
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