[FLEX-34442] Making percentWidth available in MXML context

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Apache Flex 4.12.1
• Component/s: Spark: BasicLayout
• Labels: features
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Daniel Lyng Røder
• Created: 25/Jul/14 11:12
• Updated: 25/Jul/14 11:12

Description

We have a lot of dialogs with "soft" columns, meaning that the elements are ordered into a grid like structure, but interupted by full line elements like headlines and such. To enable dynamic resizeing we use percentage widths to keep the ratios correct.
If I want to change these values I need to either manually write the new percentage value into all of the controlling elements' width parameter in the MXML code (with a high chance of error) or write alot of redundant AS4 code to set every elements percentwidth parameter in code.
I would like to be able to just assign the value to the percentwidth parameter directly in the MXML code, enabling me to bind it directly to a variable without all of the extra AS4 code.

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