flex4 layout with papervision3d

[papachan]

Hello Guys, just wonder if we can associate flex4 layout with papervision3d. any ideas over there?

thanks.

[kofi addaquay]

what do you mean by associate?

[papachan]

After working with a Flex4 layout. just wonder if a Camera Object from Papervision will take effect with an Object created from a flex4 layout.

thanks for your interest !

[kofi addaquay]

all papervision projects i have created with flex builder 4 (flash builder) have been actionscript projects...and not using mxml containers. so i dont have to worry about containers.
thing is...the flex components all extend UIComponent... these can always container other components or objects that also extend UIComponet. if the object you are trying to add to a container doesnt follow the interface requirements for IUIComponent then it might not work.
the way i see it...your papervision object extends sprite. you should be able to add those without problems.

what results are you getting? 

[papachan]

Correct, all the elements inside the flex Layout from flex4 sdk, respect the Spark layouts Hierarchy.  So you have a native 3d and can displayed elements. I am just trying using the last version of papervision3d and flex4 to adapt this layout to a view3D scene Object.

[kofi addaquay]

there is an important difference when working with flex applications...where MXML and script tags are used. the framework includes a lot of abstract code that handles layout for the developer. so in order to add children to the flex display list ... you must put them inside a container...like vbox, panel, canvas, or any spark component. when programming with papervision however... you must also use the rawChildren property...like this

myCanvas.rawChildren.addChild( viewport );

this will allow you to use non native flex display objects to the flex display stack. hope this better clarifies what i am trying to say. i also hope i understood your question

K