It should, but I believe there is currently an open bug on the issue: [SDK-21549] “Halo Panel headerHeight style does not function as expected with Spark Skin”.

Peter

I’d try creating a Panel and not specifying a height, that way the Panel container should size based on it’s children’s dimensions. Next, bind the nested List control’s rowCount property to the number of items in the List control’s data provider. That way, the List should always resize itself to the display all of its items (which may or may not look terrible, considering how many items you have in the List dataProvider).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
 
    <mx:ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
        <mx:Button label="2 items" click="list.dataProvider = [1,2];" />
        <mx:Button label="4 items" click="list.dataProvider = [1,2,3,4];" />
        <mx:Button label="6 items" click="list.dataProvider = [1,2,3,4,5,6];" />
        <mx:Button label="10 items" click="list.dataProvider = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10];" />
        <mx:Button label="16 items" click="list.dataProvider = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16];" />
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>
 
    <mx:Panel title="Auto sizing Panel">
        <mx:List id="list" width="150" rowCount="{list.dataProvider.length}" />
    </mx:Panel>
 
</mx:Application>

Peter

I see a dark line between header and body of my panel. I have set the border thickness to be zero from all sides. Is there any way to remove that?

That code should work. If you are using Flex Builder 3, you should have the have the PNG file in the /src/assets/ folder, and your MXML file should be in the /src/ file.

You can download the project source code above and view the directory structure and probably try importing the project into Flex Builder.

Peter

titleIcon="@Embed('assets/Panel.png')"

with of course the name of my file and the folder where it’s contained (this folder is contained in the main project folder). But it still doesn’t work, is there a specific location where the file must be or am I missing something??

No, I typically haven’t been separating code. I have on a few examples if I have a big data set (I may externalize the XML, for example).
Typically I leave it all in one code block so it is [hopefully] easier for people to copy/paste. Otherwise, they’ll have to right-click on the SWFs, select “View Source” and try and recreate the project piece by piece.

Peter

The change in background color on this reply is nice too.

One thing I noticed is you are not separating your code. If you are going to teach people flex please teach them to use separate style sheets and follow best practices.

Thanks again! keep it up!

Alex