I have an application that allows students to take practice standardized tests. The test questions and answer options are displayed to the students on a Panel (the question is in on VBox and the answer options are in another VBox). All of the test questions and possible answers are stored in an ArrayCollection.
Each question is displayed in the same TextArea and can vary greatly in its height needs. Therefore, I would like the height of the TextArea to dynamically change each time the next question is loaded (the students click on a button to access the next question, which fires off a series of functions to get the next question and answer options from the ArrayCollection). I have tried countless ways to change the height of the TextArea, all without any success. I am hoping that there is something extremely obvious that I have missed. This blog entry is about the best idea I have been able to find: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/nwatson/archives/2005/09/dynamic_textare.cfm. However, I cannot figure out which event can successfully fire off the function when each question loads. Perhaps I can call the function mentioned in this blog from my next() or back() functions (called when one of the buttons is clicked), but I don't know what to pass along when I call the function in order to make it work. Here is the code for the VBox containing the question. <mx:VBox id="vbQuestion" width="100%"> <mx:TextArea id="txtQuestion" htmlText="{currentQuestionSet.QUESTION}" width="100%" fontWeight="bold" wordWrap="true" editable="false" borderThickness="0" verticalScrollPolicy="off" /> <mx:Image id="img" source="/imageLibrary/images/{currentQuestionSet.QIMAGE}" horizontalAlign="center" /> </mx:VBox> <mx:VBox .... code for answer options .... </mx:VBox> <mx:ControlBar id="ctrlAppNav" width="100%" bottom="0"> <mx:Button label="Back" id="btnBack" click="back()" styleName="controlLeft"/> <... some other navigation buttons that do not apply to this problem ...> <mx:Button label="Next" id="btnNext" click="next()" styleName="controlRight"/> </mx:ControlBar> Thanks, Matt Davis
