Text flow of variable-width fonts with word-wrapping is inherently messy... there's no way to compute the number of lines with some nice math, you just have to run the text-flow machinery and measure the result, which is exactly what you have suggested. I'm pretty certain there is nothing built into flash or flex to choose a font size for you automatically.
My only suggestion is a speed optimization: use a binary search instead of trying every font size. Dave On 11/12/08, Latcho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm talking about font size, not stretching a container. > Increasing / decreasing font size to get an optimal fill of a box which > will have a fixed width and a certain height which can only be determined > during load time. > I could increase the font size of a textfield in a loop and measure it's > height on every point increase; when it overflows my wanted box-height I > take the font size of the previous step. > Is there an easier way ? > Stijn > > Joel Stransky wrote: > >> Sounds like a bad design decision to make titles of the same category >> various sizes. But I think you can just set the .width property, then set >> the .scaleY equal to the .scaleX or visa versa depending on which dimension >> is more important. >> >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Latcho <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> I need to place project-titles in a multiline textfield, wherof >> the width will be fixed, but sometimes this box might be of less >> height because of more space used by other displaying project >> elements. >> Is there a class that can dynamically regulate the font it's size >> to fit the loaded text to a certian textfield height of a multile >> textfield? >> The project titles are variable in character word length. How is >> this solvable. >> Thanks ! >> Stijn >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> >> >> >> >> -- >> --Joel >> > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
