Try subclassing and overriding the measure() method to return a greater measuredWidth.
Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of aceoohay Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 12:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Overriding width of DateField One anomaly I've found in flex is the width of the DateField. It's width is about 90px. If you use it with no width, and make it editable, when the user puts in a date in mm/dd/yyyy format it will move the left 2 characters out of the box to the left. To correct this issue, I would like to create a version of the DateField and override the width, if not provided by the developer to be 94px. I can easily do that by putting; if (!this.width)this.width = 94; in the initialize method. The problem is this does not display the correct size object in flexbuilder during design mode. My question is, how can I subclass the object in such a way as to have it display properly (the enhanced width attribute) in design mode? Paul
