How can you get the height of the Text component that's been created dynamically from ActionScript. For instance, if you have something like:
var temp:Text = new Text;
temp.width = 50;
temp.text = "Simple text";
how to get height of temp?
I am resizing a movie clips height automatically to match the height of some dynamic text that is displayed above it (will eventually be loading it from xml ). is there a way to keep a safe margin top and bottom? this is my code so far Text_Box_Graphic.height = Text_Box.height;
View 2 RepliesI want to create a text box with a fixed width that will fit itself to its current text. So I went ahead and wrote this simple application[code]...
View 2 RepliesI'm looping through a recordset, and for each item I create at runtime a spark Label and set the text property from a field of the recordset. The labels must have a fixed width and some text goes multiline. I want to arrange the label vertically so I need to know the height of the label so I can place the next label properly, but when I try to read this property, after the labels is added through the addElement mehtod, it returns 0.
how to get the label height?
How do you determine the line height (in pixels) of the text in a Spark Label?
View 2 RepliesIn flex, I have mx:Text component. How can I find how many characters can fit into it without vertical scroll for a certain height & font etc.
View 1 RepliesI want to constrain the height of a flex component to the height of the browser viewport.
The component's children are populated from a database table using a repeater, and are basic checkboxes. There are enough of them that the flex app ends up being about twice the height of the screen, which means some of the rest of the layout goes crappy on me. How can I force the component that contains these to limit itself to the size of the viewport?
How to set a Spark List height to the height of its content?Tried this:
var lastRow:IVisualElement =
myList.dataGroup.getElementAt(myList.dataGroup.numElements - 1);
myList.height = lastRow.y + lastRow.height;
It works in case of a single item, but lastRow is null in case of more items.
By default the height of an Flex Accordion container is the height of the initially selected child. I'd like to be able to set the height to the tallest child so that no resizing or scrolling is necessary when other children are selected. I do not want to use the resizeToContent property. I want the size of the container to stay constant no matter what child is selected.
My current thought is to extend the accordion class setting the creation policy to "all" and then override the measure function to loop through all the children and find the tallest one and use that for the height. This seems a little kludgy though, so I'd like to know if there is a better approach. Ultimately my question is: is there a way to set the size of an accordion container such that the container never resizes and scoll bars are never necessary to display any of the children?
In the Spark DataGrid the default row height is about 22 px. I would like to set the default row height to 18 pixels and I can do this easily enough with the rowHeight property but what happens is when the rowHeight is set to anything less than 22 px the bottom area of the text in each row is cut off. It seems that the default grid itemrenderer or grid label has a min height set to it. Since I have multiple columns and want to have shorter rows but not have the bottom of the text cut off in each row how would I do this?
View 2 RepliesI am going to embed a Flex app on an html page. The html page is already going to have a scroll bar to scroll up and down. The contents of the flex app are very dynamic, and I don't want to have an extra scroll bar when there is already one. So is there a way to make the height of the swf match the height of the contents of the swf?
View 2 RepliesI have a VBox with fixed width and height, and I add image objects with fixed width and height. I find that if my objects' height exceed the VBox's height, it doesn't show the object. I tried validateNow(), but it doesn't work. The object is added, but VBox just doesn't display it, so it leaves a blank with a same height as my other object.
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What code can I use to shrink a piece of text in a dynamic text field to fit within a certain height and width.
View 1 RepliesWe are trying to get a Rectangle that represents the exact* boundary of the text in a TextField.
*Exact as possible.
Take this image:
Using my current knowledge, I can retrieve the blue rectangle above like so:
var textRect:Rectangle = new Rectangle(
field.x,
field.y,
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Even if I fill a small section with the color I'm looking for I still get a zero-sized rectangle:
bmd.fillRect(new Rectangle(0, 0, 30, 30), textField.textColor);
As part of my flash design, I want to have some tweening text. At the beginning of the tween, the height of the text needs to be distorted ('too tall'), and at the end of the tween, the text will have settled into its correct height. However, when I try to scale the text in the first keyframe of the tween, the font size changes along with the text field height. Normally, I could just make the text into an image, but this needs to be a dynamic text field. Is there no way to scale the height of the text field and distorting the text height without changing the font size?
View 1 RepliesI'm using the text layout component offered by adobe labs. I read the documentation and now capable of doing almost all what I need. I just have a small problem. Lets say I have a text layout object on my stage containing some text. How can I know the height of the text or the number of lines in it?
I found their is a porperty: "contentHeight" and a method "calculateHeight()" but they are in another class of the libraries that comes with the text layout component. I don't know how to reach them. Please help and write me the lines of code that do this job.
I am making something where a user is able to type text into an input box and it is added to the stage inside a movieclip. I then make that movieclip draggable.Problem is the textbox height is sometimes even double the height of the height of the text inside. I need it to fit tight
View 4 RepliesI have a mc and inside of it I have 9 dynamic text. I want to be able to set its height dynamically so it will look like a table. And in addition, once the height is set the text inside of it will be vertically aligned to center. Is this possible? Here's the sample file.
View 7 Replies[URL]When you double click on the picture the photo descrpition box is the same and I'd like to make it dynamic. The movie clip that contains the text box is called "flashmo_pic_info" and the text box name is "photo_description". How can make it so that the text box is the size of whatever is in photo_description? Here is the AS so you don't have to download the template. I had to take out some of the variable declarations to make this fit.
code:
function load_gallery(xml_file:String):void
{
var xml_loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
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I have a textfield 300 width x 300 heigth in the instance.after i loaded the xml into this textfield (xml_txt) , all the content stays within this txtfield. so if i select the text i scroll down..but i dont want this..
is it possible to, after loaded the xml, to adjust the heigth of the textfield to fit in the text, so i dont need to scroll it.?
I'm having a problem with getting the height of a text field that I filled with text from an XML file.Here is my text property declaration
ActionScript Code:
with (scrollText)
{
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It�s suppose to change the height of a box that is containing some text, and I just want it to go from one state to another using simple AS. Is that not possible ?
btn_small.onRelease = smallRelease;
btn_Big.onRelease = bigRelease;
function smallRelease() {
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im trying to find the height of a movie clip containing a dynamic text box loading an external text file. i need to determine the height of the movie clip outside of this function but whenever i try to do that i get the initial size of the movie clip and not the resized size after the external text has loaded. i have tried returning the height to this function but when i trace this value i simply get [type Function].[code]
View 4 RepliesI've followed the tutorial on here on how load text from an XML file into a dynamic text box. I'd like to also automatically adjust the height of my text box based on the imported XML text
function loadXML(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
_root.header = this.firstChild.childNodes[2].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
_root.content1 = this.firstChild.childNodes[2].childNodes[0].childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
header.text = _root.header;
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I am trying to make a flash blog and basically I need to be able to load in text from an xml file into the different text fields I have setup and then I need to read the height of the loaded text so I can position the next post correctly below it.
Code:
blog_xml = new XML();
blog_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
blog_xml.onLoad = function(success) {
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This code returns the height of the text field BEFORE the xml text is added, I can't figure out how to make this script wait until after it is added.
I want to populate a dynamic text box and then scroll this. Is there anyway of determining how large the text area's height needs to be given the width and the text I want to populate it with?
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to dynamically create a static text field on the stage, but I want it to automatically shrink to the smallest height possible, much like a static text box dragged created using the Text Tool.
Here's my code at current:
Code:
_root.createTextField("text_box"+i,i,10,10,530,100);
_root["text_box"+i].type = "static";
_root["text_box"+i].text = text_arr[i];
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I am trying to make a flash blog and basically I need to be able to load in text from an xml file into the different text fields I have setup and then I need to read the height of the loaded text so I can position the next post correctly below it.
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In my Flex 4 app I would like all my alert boxes to be a specific width and height, how do I specify that in the CSS? I want to avoid having to specify the width and height every time I want to show an alert, that's why I'd like to set it in the CSS, but does not look like there's a way to.. Something like this does not work:
mx|Alert
{
height: 100;
width: 300;
}
how do you set the line height or line spacing in Flash using as3?example: myFormat.linespacing = 19;
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