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From: Alex Harui <aharui@adobe.com>
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:02:01 -0700
Subject: Re: Flex 4 layout feature and DisplayObjectContainer
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On 4/24/12 12:46 PM, "pepe.fxug@gmail.com" <pepe.fxug@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello
>=20
> Long time ago, I asked Matt Chotin about Flex 4 layout feature.
> And he answered, in future release of Flex (6 or later), they tried to
> remove DisplayObjectContainer from layout components.  Because we use
> HBox/VBox so much complexly and it doesn not need that each HBox/VBox
> are  DisplayObjectContainer.
>=20
> Did Adobe share with Apache about the future view of Flex including this?
>=20
UIComponent is based on Sprite which is a DisplayObjectContainer.  I'm not
sure how we'd eliminate a dependency on DisplayObjectContainer or why it
would help.  Can you clarify?

--=20
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe Systems, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui