View Stack in a FlowBox

Hello,
I have a application with one Grid that is displayed when the application starts. With a additional button I add 2 other Grids. This works with a ViewStack around the 2 optional Grids. The 3 Grids are horizontal. Now when I minimize the application I want the Grids change to vertical. I found the flexlib library with the "FlowBox" class. My question is now: How can I add the 2 Grids inside the ViewStack to the FlowBox so they change to vertical one by one, depending on how much I minimize the window.
thank you.

Hi David,
Thanks for the suggestion.
However, this may not work for me.
I just explained only one piece of the requirement.
I need to give user an option to select a report view based on two dimensions.
ie. report by product&report by geography adn each view should contain a column selector for selecting measure from a drop down box.
hence i created two compound lay outs each with a pivot table and a column selector.
And showed these two compound lay outs in a view selector and this View selector in a separate compound lay out.
Now the requirement is, user should have an option to select a chart view or table view with in report by product&report by geography .
Hence I need to find out to include view selector in a view selector.
Thanks
~Vijay

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