Hi thanks, so this is for a vertical menu or positioning vertical textFields,
i will try and adjust this for horizontal purposes and measure the width as opposed to the height then? -----Original Message----- From: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Sidney de Koning Sent: 25 August 2009 14:22 To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] spacing horizontal dynamic xml menu textfields 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
