Best practice for adding text to Flex container?

Hi,
I'm having some troubles to lay a TextFlow class out properly
inside a Flex container. What's the best practice to achieving
this, for example adding a lot of text to a small Panel?
Is it possible to pass anything other than a static width and
height to DisplayObjectContainerController constructor, or is this
not the place to implement this? I guess what I am looking for is
the layout logic I'd normally pack into a custom Flex component and
implement inside measure() and so on.
My use case: a chat application which adds multiple TextFlow
elements to a Flex container such as Panel. Or use TextFlow as a
substitute for UITextField.
Some example code would help me greatly.
I'm using Flex 3.2.
Regards,
Stefan

Thanks Brian, the example helps. However problems quickly
arise if I modify it slightly to this (please compile it to see):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="
http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute" initialize="init()">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import flashx.textLayout.compose.StandardFlowComposer;
import
flashx.textLayout.container.DisplayObjectContainerController;
import flashx.textLayout.container.IContainerController;
import flashx.textLayout.elements.TextFlow;
import flashx.textLayout.conversion.TextFilter;
private var _container:Sprite;
private var _textFlow:TextFlow;
private function init():void
_container = new Sprite();
textArea.rawChildren.addChild(_container);
var markup:String = "<TextFlow xmlns='
http://ns.adobe.com/textLayout/2008'><p><span>Hello
World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello
World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello World! Hello
World! Hello World! </span></p></TextFlow>";
_textFlow = TextFilter.importToFlow(markup,
TextFilter.TEXT_LAYOUT_FORMAT);
_textFlow.flowComposer.addController(new
DisplayObjectContainerController(_container, 200, 50));
_textFlow.flowComposer.updateAllContainers();
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Canvas width="100" height="100" id="textArea" x="44"
y="46" backgroundColor="#F5EAEA"/>
</mx:Application>
What is the best way to make my textflow behave like a
'normal' UIComponent in Flex? Should I use UIComponent instead of
Sprite as a Container? Will that take care of resize behaviour?
I have never before needed to use rawChildren.addChild for
example, maybe you can explain why that's needed here?
I realise that the new Textframework works on an AS basis and
is not Flex or Flash specific, but this also poses some challenges
for those of us using the Flex framework primarily.
I think it would help to have some more basic examples such
as using the new text features in a 'traditional' context. Say for
example a TextArea that is just that, a TextArea but with the
addition of inline images. I personally feel that the provided
examples largely try to teach me to run before I can walk.
Many thanks,
Stefan

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