How many renderers do you have? If not too many, you could hide a label that should size correctly (if minWidth=0) then bind to that width.
-Alex On 3/11/14 1:48 AM, "Scott Matheson" <[email protected]> wrote: >The designer has the text box changeling wide for each sentence in a >lesson (to keep students eye focus) > >Width as 100% does not work as the text box is Always the same size > >Datagroup with a horizontal layout works well but we can not use this for > text area > >I have tried minWidth expecting the box to autoscale the width to fit the >text with no luck > > > > > > >Sent from my iPhone > >> On 10 Mar 2014, at 22:40, "Alex Harui" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Well, length is just the number of characters, so that will be way too >> small. >> >> If you only want one line of text, why not use TextInput? Maybe >>TextInput >> will work if you set width="100%" >> >> >>> On 3/10/14 11:14 AM, "Scott Matheson" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> Trying to find a method to make a textArea dynamic in width in an >>> itemRenderer >>> >>> >>> >>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> >>> >>> <s:ItemRenderer xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"; >>> >>> xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" >>> >>> xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" >>> >>> autoDrawBackground="false" >>> >>> width="100%" height="100%"> >>> >>> >>> >>> <s:TextArea id="sentenceArea" width="{sentenceArea.text.length}" >>> height="100%" editable="false" fontSize="22"> >>> >>> <s:p> >>> >>> <s:linkHoverFormat> >>> >>> <s:TextLayoutFormat color="#0066FF" /> >>> >>> </s:linkHoverFormat> >>> >>> <s:linkNormalFormat> >>> >>> <s:TextLayoutFormat color="#000000"/> >>> >>> </s:linkNormalFormat> >>> >>> <s:a click="playClip(event)" > >>> >>> {data.text.toString()} >>> >>> </s:a> >>> >>> </s:p> >>> >>> </s:TextArea> >>> >>> </s:ItemRenderer> >>> >>> >>> ________________________________ >>> >>> Disclaimer: This electronic mail and any attachments are confidential >>>and >>> may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify >>> the sender immediately by replying to this email, and destroy all >>>copies >>> of this email and any attachments. Thank you. >> > >________________________________ > >Disclaimer: This electronic mail and any attachments are confidential and >may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify >the sender immediately by replying to this email, and destroy all copies >of this email and any attachments. Thank you.
