Hi, You can get the text metrics - |flash.text.TextField.getLineMetrics()|
Have a look in the docs about this class it's quite useful. Watch out for the obligatory 2px gutter around your text..
Glen Alexander Farber wrote:
Hello, how do you please find out the width of a string in a TextField? I have a Sprite representing a comic bubble (my code available at http://pastebin.com/m6d9f4087 ) and use a TextField with TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT there to accomodate the text. I would like to shrink the TextField's width though when the text is short. How can I find text's width? Also another thing I'd like to do: when the text is long, I'd like to find its total width too and set the width of the TextField so that the resulting TextField will have a (approximately) square form. Thank you Alex _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
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