On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Manish Jethani <manish.jeth...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Is there an easy way to get text inside of a mx.controls.Alert to wrap ? >>> >>> It already wraps. >>> >> The text is wrapping in your example, but it does not wrap tight enough as >> it is overflowing the edges. >> How can the text wrap such that all text will fall within myAlert.width ? > > I just looked at the source, and I'm sorry to say that the algorithm > for calculating the width of the text object is fixed and cannot be > overridden. The width is calculated based on the length of the title > text and the width of the buttons (both factors). Any width you set on > the Alert object has no effect on the width of the text inside it. > > Your options are to either chop up the text programmatically into > multiple lines, so it appears to be wrapped, or patch the framework's > AlertForm component to respect the width assigned to it.
I think I will go for option 3.... Creating custom pop-up windows with the PopUpManager: http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/03/20/creating-custom-pop-up-windows-with-the-popupmanager-class-redux/
