Precia,
Just need to ask the question, does it absolutely have to be a
TextArea? The TextField class (and descendants) have an autoSize
property and more control over some of these aspects.
--Mike
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "app.developer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> When creating a grid, I have textArea in the gridItems of the first
> row for "headers". If I don't give them a height they default to
> 100%. I need the textArea to default to the size of the text within
> them or somehow get the text within the textArea to valign="bottom",
> which I haven't been able to produce. Anyone have any ideas?
>
> I create a grid on the fly with AS. The following is part of the
> code creating the "headers" of the grid.
>
> //Create the Grid
> grid1 = new Grid();
> grid1.id = "griddy";
> grid1.y=35;
> grid1.percentWidth=100;
> grid1.setStyle("backgroundColor","0xf1c616");
> grid1.setStyle("verticalGap","1");
> grid1.setStyle("horizontalGap","1");
> addChild(grid1);
>
> //Create the first Row with the Role labels
> grid1row = new GridRow();
> grid1row.id = "gRow";
> grid1row.percentWidth=100;
> grid1.addChild(grid1row);
>
> //Create the first GridItem as a blank first cell
> grid1Item = new GridItem();
> grid1Item.id = "gItem0";
> grid1Item.setStyle("horizontalAlign","center");
> grid1row.addChild(grid1Item);
>
> label1 = new TextArea();
> label1.name = "gLabel0";
> label1.width=90;
> label1.text = " "
> label1.alpha = 0;
> grid1Item.addChild(label1);
>
>
> //Loop through results,creating the headers to each column in the grid
> for ( var i:Number=0;i<event.result.length;i++){
>
> grid1Item = new GridItem();
> grid1Item.id = "gItem"+i;
> grid1Item.setStyle("horizontalAlign","center");
> grid1Item.setStyle("verticalAlign","bottom");
> grid1row.addChild(grid1Item);
>
> label1 = new TextArea();
> label1.name = "gLabel"+i;
> label1.alpha = 0;
> label1.width = 90;
> if (event.result.list.source[i].roleName.length < 20){
> label1.height = 35;
> }else{
> label1.height = 70;
> }
> label1.text = event.result.list.source[i].roleName
> grid1Item.addChild(label1);
>
> }
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Precia
>
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