Hey guys just a quick question about creating dynamic text fields. 
I am working on a horizontal scrolling menu that uses xml to store url's and 
website titles that will be used to create a menu.
Below is example XML.

<websites>
        <link title="Google" url=http://www.google.com />
        <link title ="MSN" url=http://www.msn.com />
        <link title ="Yahoo" url=http://www.yahoo.com />
        etc....
</websites>

What I want to do is place the "title" in a dynamic text field and create a 
button around that text field. 
Problem is I need to determine the width of the text field by the length of the 
string so the buttons can vary in size.
Cause "google" is a lot longer than "MSN" etc..

|___|_title_|___| - Example button.. the blank area would be extend area for 
the hit state.

So is there a way to adjust the text field width to the length of the string?
I hope this makes enough sense to get the question answered. 
If you need more help let me know and I will put together some kind of a test 
to show.
I have tried but not really getting the results I want. Thanks all!


Corban Baxter      |      rich media designer      |      www.funimation.com


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