Hello, all
I have recently taken a deep dive into skinning Flex components. All in all, I'm very happy with the improvements that have been made and feel that it is a significant step in the right direction towards encouraging uniqueness among Flex applications in the enterprise.
I have a solid handle on skinning with Flex 4 and how to leverage it but what I don't understand revolves around resizing skinned components. As an example, let's assume I open up Photoshop and navigate to Scripts==>New Flex Skin... and then chose the ComboBox component to skin. Let's then say that I update each of the four states of this control to look differently. Lastly, I then export the skin from Photoshop and import it into Flash Builder 4 and apply my new style to a combo box I've dropped on my canvas. Everything appears well - until I resize the component. This causes the skin the ComboBox is using to visually stretch (as would be expected with the visual representation of a control being a static, embedded image).
My question is as follows:
- Is there any good way to properly handle control resizing with custom skins such that the skins don't appear stretched?
I'm hoping there is something I am missing here. I am aware that, as an alternative to importing a custom skin image, you can use the vector art capabilities of FXG in an MXML file to do the skinning there but I'd really like to avoid having to code a custom skin when I could leverage a tool such as Illustrator or Photoshop to make it look exactly how I want.
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