Yahoo! Flex Skin Buggy

Lately I have been using the Yahoo! Flex skin in a few of my interfaces as it greatly improves the overall standard look of the Flex widgets. It's very easy to implement (thanks to Adobe for creating a simple workflow for this). Recently, however, I have noticed a couple of bugs in the skin that are worth bringing up and should definitely be fixed. Suffice it to say that I am not sure if they are Adobe's fault or Yahoo!'s fault.

As you can see there is an issue on the bottom where a partial row of the datagrid is showing and the other part of it is hidden. It's the hidden part that is causing the skin to appear invisible. Note that, as soon as I scroll the datagrid it goes away. However, if I move my mouse over that row it comes back. Same goes for the [+] button. You can see that it's bounds are causing an anomaly on the control bar.

Like I said, I am not sure if this is an Adobe issue or a Yahoo! issue, but it is annoying enough that I might be swapping the skin out. I don't want to, but I may have to.

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Hi Kyle, I too have experienced some issues with the Yahoo Flex Skin, namely the button issue which you pointed out. I also found it difficult to position the button in relation to a datagrid/scrollbar in both the bottom and top corners exactly where I wanted it, I had to do some funky absolute positioning based on a negative value of width from the parent container origin less the button width.
# Posted By doug | 2/21/08 7:07 PM
@Doug - I am glad to hear I am not the only one having these issues. Now what you are having problems with sound interesting, and had I had the neat for more absolute position, I probably would have encountered that.

Have you seen any other skins that are nice and professional like this one?
# Posted By Kyle Hayes | 2/21/08 8:43 PM
I just wanted to position a button on the corner, ended up using custom style on regular flex skin (not due to this reason, just having issues with some of the Yahoo style elements working out in my available real-estate - easier to just use the style explorer and create some custom css). Cool skins over at scalenine http://www.scalenine.com/
# Posted By doug | 2/22/08 2:25 PM
Kyle-

Experienced the exact same issue you were seeing with the Yahoo skin. I ended up tweaking the transparency of the skin in Illustrator and that seemed to help a bit. But, I'm still having issues when I re-size the browser and the app scaling...the skin seems to drop in/out at different positions....very weird. Did you resolve any of your issues.

Thanks for posting this!
# Posted By Ryan Schulz | 3/17/08 5:53 PM
@Ryan: That's a good idea. Unfortunately I did not attempt to look for any other solutions.
# Posted By Kyle Hayes | 3/17/08 8:30 PM