You will need to override measure() and set measuredHeight based on explicitWidth. There is code like that in ListItemRenderer
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of davidch204 Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 2:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Custom List component Height Issue Hi Alex, the thing is I list other data, I just left out the component in my example below, but basically its a <LinkButton>. That's why I use the renderer. That and I style the renderer also. --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That renderer should not be necessary. Set wordWrap and > variableRowHeight=true on the list > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of davidch204 > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 11:58 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] Custom List component Height Issue > > > > Hi all, I created a custom item renderer and in it I have: > > <Canvas> > <HBox> > <Text> > </HBox> > </Canvas> > > The text inside <Text> includes spaces like /r, so most items take up > at least two lines. However my problem is that it only seems to be > rendering the first line of text and is not displaying the rest. > > If I set the height strictly it'll display the full text, but this > would seem odd for items that are only one line of text. > > Anyone have issues/solutions with variable heights in list items? >

