Hi, I have searched through the archives and googled, but most related concerns seem to focus on text height. I am concerned solely with text width.
I have a subclass of UIComponent (called BTVariable) that contains an HBox which, in turn, contains between two and four TextArea objects. I would like BTVariable to be as narrow as possible and to adjust its size as necessary (growing when needed and shrinking when prudent). I have tried implementing measure() on BTVariable, but I think that I have a cyclical relationship between various objects. The HBox needs to be given explicit width because its constituent TextAreas have no notion of their own width, apparently. I am thinking that this is probably something that has been dozens of times and that there is a fairly straightforward way to do it. But, having spent many hours pursuing seemingly promising approaches, I am starting to think that I am overlooking some obvious mechanism. Thanks in advance for any advice or pointers. -Eric
