The problem you are going to face is that different fonts have different widths for different characters. For example, an "i" is thinner than an "o". You could try using a fixed width font and then counting characters.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "ivansebastiansurya" <ivansebastiansu...@...> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm having a problem regarding measuring the width of a Label control. > In my item renderer, I need to display a list of labels, but the number of > labels per row depends on how many of them fit within one row. > To do that, I need to actually measure the width of the label created prior > to being added as a child of my renderer. > Anyone has any idea how to do that? > > I need something like: > > var label:Label = new Label(); > label.text = "Test label"; > // Then I need to measure the width of the created label. > > Cheers and thanks in advance for reading my post. > > Ivan. >
