ok so just to follow up its a bug IMO with Label.
I tired setting truncateToFit and no dice.
So i swapped out label for text and its hot.
<mx:HBox width="100%">
<mx:Text text="{text} " truncateToFit="true"/>
<mx:Spacer width="100%" />
<mx:Button id="button" width="20" height="15"/>
</mx:HBox>
I also tried a TextArea without setting truncateToFit and it worked too.
crap like this makes me glad I'm mostly an AS dev.
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From: Flex Noob <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2009 9:56:28 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Simple but impossible Hbox alignment issue
This one is rather perplexing. If I use a label inside an hbox and if the text
inside the label runs too long it pushed the button off the screen:
<mx:HBox width="100%">
<mx:Label text="{text} "/>
<mx:Spacer width="100%" />
<mx:Button id="button" width="20" height="15"/>
</mx:HBox>
Doesn't Flex tell the label what is maxWidth should be so that doesn't
happen????
