[FLEX-24041] If horizontalAlign="center" is set on a Box container which contains a child with width="100%"; then when the verticalScrollBar is displayed, the horizontalScrollBar is also displayed to compensate for the width of the verticalScrollBar

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 3.5 (Release)
• Component/s: mx: Box View
• Environment: Affected OS(s): Windows; Affected OS(s): Windows XP; Browser: Internet Explorer 7.x; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 24/May/10 12:34
• Updated: 24/May/10 12:34

Description

Steps to reproduce:

1) Compile the following application:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application
horizontalScrollPolicy="off"
layout="absolute"
verticalScrollPolicy="off"
xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">

<mx:VBox
bottom="0"
horizontalAlign="center"
left="0"
minHeight="0"
minWidth="0"
paddingBottom="20"
paddingLeft="20"
paddingRight="20"
paddingTop="20"
right="0"
top="0">

<mx:VBox
backgroundAlpha=".5"
backgroundColor="#000000"
height="1200"
width="100%"/>

</mx:VBox>

</mx:Application>

Actual Results:
Both scrollbars appear. It's worth noting that we already have to work around the constraint based layout model to get scrollbars to appear at all by setting the minHeight and minWidth properties on the VBox. That being said, even if these properties are removed and we allow the Application container to scroll the content, this issue is still present.

Expected Results:
A vertical scrollbar should appear when a container's content height exceeds the vertical constraint or dimension of the container. A horizontal scrollbar should appear when a container's content width exceeds the horizontal constraint or dimension of the container.

Workaround (if any):
I haven't found a decent workaround for this yet. I suppose it would be possible to remove the horizontalAlign property and center the content by setting all of the positions manually via ActionScript, but this would defeat the purpose of having a constraint based component architecture already in place.