Is there an important distinction between scaling a TextField object and changing the font size? Perhaps you are storing the formatting or there are visual rendering implications or anything?? Otherwise, it seems like Joel's solution would work nicely to achieve what you want. -jonathan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Latcho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm talking about font size, not stretching a container. > Increasing / decreasing font size to get an optimal fill of a box which > will have a fixed width and a certain height which can only be determined > during load time. > I could increase the font size of a textfield in a loop and measure it's > height on every point increase; when it overflows my wanted box-height I > take the font size of the previous step. > Is there an easier way ? > Stijn > > Joel Stransky wrote: > >> Sounds like a bad design decision to make titles of the same category >> various sizes. But I think you can just set the .width property, then set >> the .scaleY equal to the .scaleX or visa versa depending on which dimension >> is more important. >> >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Latcho <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> I need to place project-titles in a multiline textfield, wherof >> the width will be fixed, but sometimes this box might be of less >> height because of more space used by other displaying project >> elements. >> Is there a class that can dynamically regulate the font it's size >> to fit the loaded text to a certian textfield height of a multile >> textfield? >> The project titles are variable in character word length. How is >> this solvable. >> Thanks ! >> Stijn >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >> <mailto:Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com> >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> >> >> >> >> -- >> --Joel >> > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- -jonathan howe _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
