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Daniel Freeman
Inspiring
February 28, 2010
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TLF Autosize

  • February 28, 2010
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I want a ContainerController to autosize.  Like setting TextField.autosize, so that the textfield expands to fit all the text it holds (without scrolling or truncating the text).  How do I do this?

If I call ContainerController.setCompositionSize(...,calculateHeight()); - will that do it?  Is there a way to update this automatically? (apart from the obvious way using an event handler).

I know that FTETextField supports autosize, but I never use mx. flex classes in my own pure actionscript projects.

(What I'm doing next in e2publish is adding tables - and rows will expand to accommodate text in cells.  http://www.e2easy.co.cc/e2publish.html )

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casper_no
casper_no
Known Participant
May 21, 2010

Thanks! I was having the same problem. I agree that setting composition height to NaN is a bit messy and not intuitive. containerController.autosizeHeightToContent or similar boolean setter would be clearer.

The current documentation doesn't mention the NaN option at all.

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Adobe Employee
robin_briggs
Adobe Employee
May 24, 2010

I will add a bug to update the documentation. Thanks!


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Adobe Employee
robin_briggs
Adobe Employee
March 2, 2010

I think you can do the same thing by calling:

textFlow.flowComposer.composeToPosition();

var contentBounds:Rectangle = controller.getContentBounds();

controller.setCompositionSize(controller.compositionWidth, contentBounds.height);

flowComposer.updateAllControllers();

Can you try that?

- robin

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Rezmason
Participating Frequently
March 2, 2010

You can also set the compositionWidth and compositionHeight of your container controller to NaN, though that'll prevent things like text alignment from working.

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Anonymous
April 13, 2010

Setting something to NaN can simply not be the correct way to do this Adobe!

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