gamepoetry.com - Scale9 That Actually Works
Another excellent article from gamepoetry.com. This time Panayoti discusses Adobe’s oft-maligned Scale9 function/property for display objects. From the article:
Flash 8 marked the introduction of the scale9grid. UI writing was about to become substantially easier, because you could create components that resized dynamically and maintained their artistic integrity at all sizes. This was to usher in a new era of sexy UIs that were built in less time. In theory. In practice, the implementation was, and still is, buggy. Oh, and it only works for MovieClips. You can kinda get it working in Flex using yet another embed tag you’ll forget about as soon as you’re done copy pasting it from some reference site. Here’s a scale9 implementation that actually works.
