[flexcoders] Re: repeater with TextArea -- TextArea not sizing to internal text?

2008-04-04 Thread Dmitri Girski
By a coincidence I created yesterday a component you are talking about. http://mitek.id.au/flex/ElasticTextField.as The important thing is - it works in Flex Printing Plant/Engine. PS This is a readonly thing as my primary goal was printing. I tried to use TextArea - it does not work in

[flexcoders] Re: repeater with TextArea -- TextArea not sizing to internal text?

2008-04-04 Thread Dmitri Girski
only. Also, since the resize happened in creationComplete, it will NOT work in an item renderer or in a Repeater with recycleChildren=true. there is also no guarantee that data binding will happen before the creationComplete event, so you have to override set text method as well. Dmitri.

[flexcoders] Re: repeater with TextArea -- TextArea not sizing to internal text?

2008-04-04 Thread Matt Davis
I was struggling with this as well. Dmitri offered a great solution, but my final solution was much less complicated. I added this funtion to my .mxml file (which I got from http://weblogs.macromedia.com/nwatson/archives/2005/09/index.cfm): private function updateHeight(target:Object):void {