I was once in a similar situation and did the following trick on the
label's updateComplete event -
if(myLabel.isTruncated){
myLabel.setStyle("fontSize", myLabel.getStyle("fontSize") - 2);
}
Of course you would need to also set the value for maxDisplayedLines.
Good luck,
Evyatar
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 3:46 PM, chris_d_k <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have 4 labels with have the same dimensions (width="200",
> maxHeight="100")
> and get 4 different texts for the labels.
>
> At least I want that every text fits into the labels dimensions and that
> all
> texts have the same fontSize (the fontsize of the label with most text in
> it).
>
> Currently I get the minimim size by testing the maximum fontSize for every
> label, compare them and taking the smallest.
>
> Is there a better way to get the maximum font size which will fit to a
> label
> as below?
>
> That's my way to get the maximum font size inside the labels parent
> component (s:Group):
>
> // somewhere in updateDisplayList
> textLabel.setStyle("fontSize", 52);
> while(isResizeNecessary())
> {
> setSmallerFontSizeAndRevalidate();
> }
>
> // other methods
> private function isResizeNecessary():Boolean
> {
> var FONT_SIZE_STEPS:int = 2;
> var isTextLabelToHeight:Boolean =
> textLabel.getPreferredBoundsHeight() >
> getMaxHeightForTextLabel();
> var isTextDownscaleable:Boolean =
> textLabel.getStyle("fontSize") >
> FONT_SIZE_STEPS;
> return isTextLabelToHeight && isTextDownscaleable;
> }
>
> private function setSmallerFontSizeAndRevalidate():void
> {
> var FONT_SIZE_STEPS:int = 2;
> textLabel.setStyle("fontSize",
> textLabel.getStyle("fontSize") -
> FONT_SIZE_STEPS);
> textLabel.invalidateProperties();
> textLabel.invalidateSize();
> textLabel.invalidateDisplayList();
> textLabel.validateNow();
> invalidateDisplayList();
> }
>
>
>
>
>
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