Hi Satu, Is the question I am asking 'Dynamically increasing size of container to fit all characters' of interest? I haven't got any solutions as yet, but it may be useful... Leon
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of svktiilikainen Sent: 10 January 2006 09:16 To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: How to determine the content length in mx:Text? OK, probably managed to solve this. I can always compare preferredHeight with height and preferredWidth with width, and this seems to work for now. Satu --- In [email protected], "svktiilikainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > does anyone know how you can determine the length of text in mx:Text > component before the component is drawn? > In other words, is it possible to find out that the to-be contents of > a Text component are too big to fit into the component without > clipping? The Text component here is of fixed width & height, > multiline, and can contain basically any number of characters, line > breaks etc. > > Satu > -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
