Thanks Alex, My VBox (that had the quirky textfield as a child) had a sibling with a varying width, and when the width was set to 0, this problem occurred.
Instead of setting the width to 0, I set includeInLayout=false; and the bug disappeared. Thanks. --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Word wrapped text has no natural size. It can be any shape pretty much > unless you define one dimension, then we can calculate the other. > > > > It is best to update the width of the Text at layout time instead of > using %. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of ninobronzed > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 9:50 AM > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [flexcoders] Text word wrapping > > > > I have a mx.controls.Text instance. It is a child of a VBox. > > I give it a percentWidth = 100, and the text is truncated (cut off, > actually. no ellipsis) and doesn't wrap. It only happens when the text > is a specific length. > > So, most of the time it works correctly, only when the text is close > to the width of the parent container, the last word is not visible. > > For example: "My text for my textfield" would appear: > "My text for my > > " > > The extra line is there for the wordwrap, but the word is gone. > > I have also tinkered with maxWidth and width instead of percentWidth > to no avail. > > Please please help. I'm not posting code, because I am hoping someone > has just seen this before...thank you. >
