Technically you would iterate through the dataprovider and measure the text/renderer forthe appropriate column. Note that if you have large numbers of items this will be expensive. It is often better just to guess at a number or "know" the longest string
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wwwpl Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Re: DataGrid Column Width is not The Content WIdth. How do you make it the same Could you spell that out just a bit more? I have tried to access the children in the datagridcolumn, but have not found it to be straight forward. Thanks. --- In [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > measure the children and set the width accordingly > > ________________________________ > > From: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On > Behalf Of wwwpl > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11:09 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [flexcoders] DataGrid Column Width is not The Content WIdth. > How do you make it the same? > > > > DataGrid column widths are set to a default of 100. That means it > won't size to it's children. It is very annoying. Does anyone have a > work around? >

