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Extending HorizontalLayout to Support Baseline (Align to Text)

February 26th, 2010 4 comments

hlayoutbaselineThe current Spark HorizontalLayout unfortunately doesn’t support baseline alignment. If I want to have, for example, a Label and a Button positioned so that their text aligns, I usualy use absolute position (nudging things up or down) or baseline constraints with BasicLayout/Canvas. But then again, I always find myself needing this feature in a HorizontalLayout and so I finally decided to tackle it on. It turns out it’s pretty easy to extend the stock Spark HorizontalLayout, not to mention using it is a breeze with the Spark layout architecture (yay Spark!). Read more…