I responded several days ago. It is a player idiosyncracy. We use callLater to wait until after the text has rendered.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kramus0 Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Number of lines in <mx:text/> Hello, can please somebody confirm if this is really a bug? Thanks Markus --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "kramus0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes I thought so as well, but this doesn't seems to work. Below you > can find my code example. > > So what I see on the screen are the first two lines of text with the > following content: > > This is the fist line of text. > And this is the second line. > > But the trace log (even after super.updateDisplayList) shows that > there are still five lines with the following content. > > textField.numLines:5 > textField.getLineText(0):This is the first > textField.getLineText(1):line of text. And > textField.getLineText(2):this is the > textField.getLineText(3):second line. > textField.getLineText(4):Third line is this. > > Hope this helps. > > Markus > > > > > This my example application: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> > <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml <http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml> " > xmlns:components="components.*" layout="absolute"> > <components:MyText text="This is the first line of text. And this is > the second line. Third line is this." width="157" height="40"/> > </mx:Application> > > Here is my example class (derived from Text): > > package components > { > import mx.controls.Text; > > public class MyText extends Text > { > public function MyText() > { > //TODO: implement function > super(); > } > > override protected function > updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth:Number, unscaledHeight:Number):void > { > super.updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth,unscaledHeight); > > trace('textField.numLines:' + textField.numLines); > > for (var i:uint = 0; i < textField.numLines; i++) > { > trace ('textField.getLineText('+ i.toString() + '):' + > textField.getLineText(i)); > } > } > } > } > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <aharui@> wrote: > > > > You should be all set after super.updateDisplayList(). > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > > Behalf Of kramus0 > > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:23 AM > > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Number of lines in <mx:text/> > > > > > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > But when is the text in the textField actually layouted? I have tried > > to get the right lines (that I acutally see in the end) after > > commitProperties and updateDisplayList - but there is always the wrong > > text in the textField properties. For instance I get 5 lines even if > > there are only 3 lines displayed in the end. > > > > I have tried to set the width and height of the textField but this > > also didn't work. > > > > Any suggestions? Thanks. > > > > Markus > > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > , "Alex Harui" <aharui@> wrote: > > > > > > Subclass, get to the internal TextField and get numLines. There are > > > other apis on TextField to get line content > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > ] On > > > Behalf Of kramus0 > > > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:34 AM > > > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > > Subject: [flexcoders] Number of lines in <mx:text/> > > > > > > > > > > > > This might be fairly simple but how can I find out how many lines a > > > text contains? If I for instance assign some long text to a text field > > > it is separated in different lines if the control height is big > > enough. > > > > > > So how can I find out how many lines are there and what their content > > > is? > > > > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > > > Markus > > > > > >
