Love/Hate Adobe Flex 2
I love Flex 2, I really do. But as much as you'll see me raving about it I'm also quite frustrated by it at times.
Yesterday I tried skinning my first app. I happily downloaded the template and started editing away in Flash 8. I was amazed at how easy it was to create the skin and embed it via my stylesheet. The problem is that it kept cutting off the bottom, top, or right-hand edges of my panels after a resize. I tried adjusting my border thickness, size of my template, and every other possible variable. I suspected that I had obviously just done something incorrectly in my template or my stylesheet so I switched back to the default Flex 2 template and that's when I noticed it was occurring there as well, it's just less noticeable. I'm only using a quick resize-effect on a viewStack with the resizeToContent property set to true. Hopefully if I set manual sizes or something I can get this to work. I'll let you know if I can get a workaround.

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