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" <aha...@adobe.com> 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" <smathe...@intralinks.com> 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.