I'm curious... If you're a newbie, what are you doing that requires access to low-level Flash objects like TextField? What are the Flex text components not doing that you need?
- Gordon ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hastings Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] fit text width & height to amount of text i'm having another newbie flex brain fog ;-) trying to set up a background color for a TextField that is more or less the width & height of the it's text. i've tried looping thru the text looking at TextLineMetrics but i still end up w/text backgrounds that are too wide, something along the lines of (where [ ] represent the background): [test text ] any suggestions? thanks.
