you could always try using a TextArea component instead of a Text component. BTW are you using runtime css? (i.e a swf you load containing css styles for your app) paddy;)
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com on behalf of I am Peter, not Lena Sent: Sat 21/06/2008 10:23 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Test contro height question Hi All, I'm still trying to learn the intricacies of Flex and the auto sizing of Text control's height (and the related word wrapping) is still one area that really confuses me. For example, I have a text control: <mx:Text id="nameText" width="250" text="{transaction.name}"/> When the transaction object is set for the first time, and transaction.name is longer than 250, only the first line is shown. There is no wrapping. I would think that the explicit width 250 would force word wrapping but this is not the case. If I select another transaction in the UI, and then re-select the original transaction, then the text control is correctly resized with word wrapping. Why is this happening? What causes this strange behavior? And the only way I can get word wrapping to work is to bind the text control's width to it's parent's width: <mx:Text id="nameText" width="{this.width-200}" text="{transaction.name}"/> This isn't really desirable though, because if the text is inside a form item, then it is quite difficult to figure out what correct width of the text should be (because the width is determined by the longest label of all the form items, I believe). Sometimes, though, I can get the text control to resize correctly by calling validateNow(). But this doesn't always work. Why is that? Anyways, any insights on these perplexing questions would be much appreciated. Thanks, Peter
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