Flash Builder 4 Design View vs Flash runtime appearance w/SDK 4.1

Question

• Flash Builder's design view is worse than 3's (which at least was usable if you ignore some quirks), so WHAT do Flex UI designers (those who don't have paid design teams...) do to design a complex UI? Because Design View (also based on what a lot of people say about it..) gets more useless with every release.

• See image for some differences in design view vs. Flash. WHAT is causing this? css also posted.. ("Duration", "hr", "min" are mx Labels, the image size text is an mx Text comp. Project is an "mx only" SDK 4.1 project.) I don't even care that the spinners look different, I just need it to show me correctly sized stuff so I can position things via Canvas, or properly size containers.

mx|Label { font-weight:bold; font-size:12; }

mx|Text { font-weight:normal; }

Answer 1

Try embedding your fonts. I've found the design view to be more accurate when you do so.

But overall, the design view sucks. I code most of my views by hand. Flash Catalyst gives you pretty good fidelity, but it's an entirely different type of tool.