Best way is to use an instance of the control to measure so it will factor in styles and everything. The DG sometimes uses one instance of your renderer to measure several different rows
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Denis Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 8:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Measuring the width of text without rendering a control Hi all, I need to measure the size of the number of text fields that come from the XML to display them in a datagrid. The size of datagrid columns depends on the width of the text records that come from the database as the text cannot wrap so the columns should adjust if possible. The logic is a bit complex since I need to know the width of all text in all columns before distributing width among columns. How can I measure the width of the text without adding a child text control to my parent object to measure the text. I would like to avoid creating a dummy textbox in my container just to measure the width of the text records but I did not find anything on the web that deals with this. I was planning to measure the text width after the data is loaded since it needs to be done only once. Can I create an "abstract" Text object and measure the size of the text within it? I apologize for awkward wording but I am not very experienced in Flex yet. Thanks in advance, Denis
