No, I let it finish the layout at its current shape, then ask for the dimensions in a callLater. Invalidating probably won't help. Then if you need to adjust, change the size and go through the whole sequence again.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jandersen1978 Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Determining textHeight and textWidth when htmlText contains images... So are you thinking of using callLater from within a creation complete handler that would then call invalidateSize which would kick off the measure method which would then have the appropriate textHeight available? --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use callLater to check after the control has rendered. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of jandersen1978 > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 8:53 PM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] Determining textHeight and textWidth when htmlText > contains images... > > > > I'm trying to build a text component that will dynamically size its > height based on the textHeight property after its htmlText property is > set. However, it appears that the textHeight property doesn't include > the height of images loaded into the component. e.g. comparing the > textHeight of components displaying a string of HTML--one with an > image and the other without--yields the same values... > > Anyone know how to reliable guage how large the content of a text > component is when using htmlText with images? > Thanks! > --James >
