It was done to try to get ascenders and descenders factored into the height.
On 5/9/13 12:53 AM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In mx:Label we have:
>
> mx_internal function getMinimumText(t:String):String
> {
> // If the text is null, empty, or a single character,
> // make the measured size big enough to hold
> // a capital and decending character using the current font.
> if (!t || t.length < 2)
> t = "Wj";
>
> return t;
> }
>
> The explanation makes sense ie says what exactly it does but why does it do
> this? It means that width of "9" greater than width of "99" as it called by
> measure.
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-17549
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
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Adobe Systems, Inc.
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