I think that's a known bug. I would addEventListeners to the DG for updateComplete and columnResize and update the TI widths then.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amy Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 5:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Binding textinput width to datagrid column width? --- In [email protected]<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, "biosmonkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I must be doing something dumb, but I can't understand why this isn't > working. > > I have a datagrid with say, 2 columns. Under the datagrid, I have two > text input controls next to each other in an hbox. > > I want the text input controls to match the width of the datagrid > columns directly above them. This means when the datagrid is drawn and > the column widths determined, the textinput controls should resize > themselves to match. This also should occur if the user resizes the > columns manually. > > So, I assigned IDs to the datagridcolumn objects, and tried to bind > the width of the text input controls to them. > > So first I tried > <mx:TextInput width="{colName.width}"....> Try something like <mx:TextInput width="100%"/>
