I know a lot of people have moved on to Flex 2 and Flash CS3 but there are many people that are still forced to use Flash 8 and earlier due to a variety of circumstances. I am one such individual.

In developing an app for a client I found an issue with V2 List and Tree that I had seen before but never really bothered with. Previously this issue was simply an annoyance. But in this current app the lnf needs to have a solid 1 pixel border around instances of the List and the Tree components.

The issue is a 1 pixel “extra” space between the left border and list items. No matter what you set the borderStyle to be the extra pixel is always there. This becomes very obvious when setting the borderStyle to none or solid and hovering over an item.
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