ActionScript 3.0 :: Expanding Width Of TLFTextField When Parent Container Resized
Apr 7, 2011
I have spent nearly a day on this now, searching everywhere, but never found anything. This is my desperate attempt to get my problem solved. I have a container (ContentHolder extends Sprite), which holds another container (Content extends Sprite) which has a TLFTextfield in it.
Now when I resize the ContentHolder, its children get resized too. I have overridden set width and set height in the Content class, because I need the Content to resize differently than just scale. I want the TLFTextfield width to adjust to ContentHolder width, while maintaining font size. So ideally the TLFTextfield would set different line breaks, according to the width of ContentHolder.
I really have no idea how this can be achieved. One solution may be to create a new TLFTextfield instance with the updated height and width values, but that could look messy when drag-resizing the ContentHolder..
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