Question

I have a s:Group with few fixed size components in it, these are lets suppose 200x300, 300x150 etc
Now if i resize s:Group with resizeMode=Scale, (scale down). and try to read the scaled down size of these child components but they still has the same old height and width.

how can i get width and height after scaling down the parent group?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hey there :]
At first i thought it would be an easy task to get the width and height. But when i tried it, none of explicitWidth and measuredWidth worked, when resizeMode is set to “scale” of the s:Group.

So i found a way but i’m not sure if it’s the best solution:

write this in your script tag:

import mx.core.mx_internal;
use namespace mx_internal;

then if you have

Group id=”group” resizeMode=”scale”
and a s:Button id=”myButton” inside it

in order to get the myButton width for example, just compute group.$scaleX * myButton.width
Hope this will work.

all the best,
blz