Comments on: Evolution of a feature – layout constraints

By: Billigflüge

Billigflüge — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:00:59 +0000

Hey,

if you use Layout constraints you can save your precious time. Your text reminds me of creating “MySpace” – pages…
Everyone should decide for him/herself what he or she wants to use to design pages

:-)

By: Sho

Sho — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:35:09 +0000

Unfortunately, it will not be possible to set width as a style in this release of Flex. By the time we made these other changes, it was too late to change something as fundamental as width.

By: Waldo Smeets

Waldo Smeets — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:24:01 +0000

Sho, nice move. Since layout constraints are moved into CSS and since these constraints are so close to regular width and hight settings, does that mean that we now also finally can set width:100% as a style definition instead of having to use inline width=”100%” all the time?

By: Sho

Sho — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:16:45 +0000

You should use whatever makes sense to you. Unless you use lots and lots of nesting, using HBox and VBox should be fine, especially with the speed of AS3.

Using layout constraints will save you time if you find yourself wanting to nudge things left, right, up and down. It’s also good for more complicated layouts, such as when you have a button at the top and bottom of the page that need to be aligned, but you have controls in between them that are not aligned.

By: Simeon

Simeon — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:28:25 +0000

Thanks for the insight into how this came about. I was one of the people who “just got” nested layout controls, so the switch for me seemed odd.

Now it makes alot of sense.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:50:35 +0000

nice one, which made me re-considering using layout constraints again.

should i prefer layout constraints over nested containers ?