Hi Thomas,
Try to do something like this and adjust it to your own needs;
// When you are in a for loop, create new items and and try to measure
the height of an item.
// And position items vertically.You need to remember the previous
item, the fastest way to do this is to have a runningY var declared
outside the for loop with an initial value of zero.
//See comments in code for further explanation.
var runningY:Number = 0;
var OFFSET_X:Number = 20;
for (var index:int = 0; index < 4 ; index++) {
var _textheader:TextField = new TextField( );
_textheader.text = "Text";
_textheader.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
_textheader.x = _background.x - _background.width / 2 + OFFSET_X;
// First iteration runningY = 0;
// Second iteration runningY = 0 + textHeader.height +2;
textHeader.height = 20
// Third iteration runningY = 22 + textHeader.height +2;
textHeader.height = 40 -- mutiple lines of text
// Fourth iteration runningY = 64 + textHeader.height +2;
textHeader.height = 20
// Fifth iteration runningY = 86
_textheader.y = runningY;
runningY += _textheader.height + 2; // textheader = 20
}
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:06 PM, thomas horner wrote:
Hi all am struggling to position, my textFields generated within my
loop
from my external xml,
i want to evenly space them and as they are dynamic they are all of
different sizes.
i have run a trace on the loop as follows;
trace(navbut.label.width);
which gives me the widths of each field how do it add the total of the
widths from the loop? to then space them.
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