if you use
myField.autoSize = "center";
That would keep the text field's width fixed while the text flows
lower to increase it's height right?
On 12/20/05, Steven Sacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, the person who told you to use just autosize has it wrong. If you
> set a textfield to autosize, it will expand the right edge to fit the text,
> so unless you're putting linebreaks in your text manually, it won't adjust
> the height of the textfield.
>
> There's a kludge workaround for making textfields have width and height and
> be autosized with wordwrap, and here it is:
>
> this.createTextField("label", 1, 0, 0, myWidth, lineHeight);
> this.label.wordWrap = true;
> this.label.multiline = true;
> this.label.autoSize = true;
> this.label.text = someText;
> // KLUDGE
> var textHgt = this.label.textHeight;
> var tfHgt = this.label._height;
> var diff = tfHgt - textHgt;
> this.label.autoSize = false;
> this.label._height = textHgt + diff;
> // END KLUDGE
>
> HTH,
> Steven
>
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