Erik: I tried to set creationPolicy="all" on a DataGrid but creationPolicy is not a valid attribute for DataGrid. I have creationPolicy="all" set on the parent container, but it does not help on the DataGrid.
I am using Flex 2.01, if that matters. Paul --- In [email protected], EECOLOR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In Flex, if a UI component has not been displayed, it has not yet measured > it's size. This is what happens with the DataGrid as well. You could set the > creationPolicy to "all" and wait for the creationComplete event before you > retrieve the column widths and height. > > > Greetz Erik > > > On 5/16/08, aceoohay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have written a bit of code that generates the xml needed to display > > an Excel Workbook with multiple worksheets. I have created a tabbed > > panel with 5 different grids one per panel. > > > > One of the features of the spreadsheet class is to grab the width of > > each column and create the same size column in Excel, this works well, > > except if the grid has not been displayed. In other words every tab > > that you display, the coresponding grid widths convert to Excel fine, > > the ones that you have not clicked get the data properly, but the sizes > > are very small, but not all the same size. > > > > To get the size of the column I use; > > > > Math.ceil(dg.columns[i].width) > > > > Any clues as to what might be going on, or better yet how to solve it? > > > > Paul > > >
