Right container for ESRI:Legend

[WilliamBailey]

I am using "<ESRI:Legend" in my own component/pop-up.
Right now I have it located within a "<mx:TitleWindow with code as follows.
<mx:TitleWindow xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
    xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark"
    xmlns:esri="http://www.esri.com/2008/ags"
    width="350" height="400"
    clipContent="false"
    verticalScrollPolicy="on"
    preinitialize="preInit();"
    title="Map Legend"
    showCloseButton="true"
    close="{PopUpManager.removePopUp(this)}">
  <mx:Script>
  <![CDATA[
  import com.esri.ags.Map;
  import com.esri.ags.components.Legend;
  import com.esri.ags.layers.ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer;
  import mx.managers.PopUpManager;
  [Bindable]private var theMap:Map;
  [Bindable]private var legendLayers:ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer;   
  private function preInit():void
  {
     theMap = this.parentApplication.map;
     legendLayers = this.parentApplication.baseMap;
     legendLayers.name="SCPA";
              }
                           ]]>
  </mx:Script>
     <esri:Legend id="myLegend"
        width="350" height="400"
        respectCurrentMapScale="true"
        layers="{[legendLayers]}"
        map="{theMap}"/>
</mx:TitleWindow>

The two problems I am encountering are:
1: The legend is showing all layers, not just the visible ones. (my test project; where legend and map are in same file, works flawlessly)
2. The legend extends vertically and horizontally past the containing TitleWindow (see pic)

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Bill

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Bill,

1. Are you sure that your other legend component implementation honors layer visibility? I should honor scale dependency.

2. You need to wrap the legend component in a scroller:

            <s:Scroller width="100%" height="100%">
                <esri:Legend id="myLegend"
                             width="350" height="400"
                             respectCurrentMapScale="true"
                             layers="{[legendLayers]}"
                             map="{theMap}"/>
            </Scroller>

[WilliamBailey]

After further review of Map... the legend is respecting scale, is there a way to also respect visibility?

I did get the Legend to stay in bounds by adding "clipContent=true" to TitleWindow and playing with height and width.

p.s. I could not get Legend to work inside "<s:Scroller"  
'com.esri.ags.components.Legend' is not assignable to the default property, 'viewport', of type 'spark.core.IViewport'.

thanks for your help

[KenBuja]

I didn't wrap my legend in a scroller, but put it in a VGroup along with a transparency slider.

    <s:VGroup id="legendGroup" width="100%" height="100%" visible="{layerBenthic.visible}">
        <s:HGroup width="100%" horizontalAlign="center" paddingTop="10">
            <s:VGroup width="100%" horizontalAlign="center">
                <s:Label text="Layer Transparency"/>
                <s:HSlider id="toolAlpha" minimum="0" maximum="100" snapInterval="1" liveDragging="true"
                           width="75%" change="changeTransparency()" value="100"/>
            </s:VGroup>
        </s:HGroup>
        <esri:Legend id="legendMap" map="{mapMain}" layers="{layerBenthic}" width="100%" height="100%"
                     respectCurrentMapScale="true" x="10" />
    </s:VGroup>

[WilliamBailey]

Ken,   Nice and clean, thanks for the tip.
Anyone get the new Legend object to respect current layer visibility?
Maybe next version?   please

[JHayes]

Nice work gentlemen!

Any chance I could get the AS code for the transperency?

Thanks,