Access cellRenderer textField in comboBox in AS3

Question

Just getting up to speed in AS3 now and I am having problems
skinning a custom comboBox component.
I have created all the custom skins for my component and
added a custom font but the font is not centering itself correctly
in the dropdown list at runtime (its about 1 or 2 pixels off in the
y). I cannot seem to find a way to adjust the y position of the
text in the dropdown list. I can use:
my_c.dropdown.setRendererStyle("textPadding",2);
...but all that does is adjust the indent (x) value of the
text.
And adding the align property to my custom textFormat for the
dropdown only aligns it in the horizontal space as well.
How the heck to I adjust the vertical align in the cellRender
in the dropdown list!?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I found a solution for this issue, but i don't know wether this is a perfect method or not, but it's working fine.
solution: -
create a simple button and place a dynamic text field and skip the instant name for this field. you can access this dynamic text by index number.
but if you have any visual effects on mouse overs then you need to assign the button label to all those stages in as3.
code:
//-----mous Up ----
var samplebtn_doc:DisplayObjectContainer = samplebtn.upState as DisplayObjectContainer;
var labelsamplebtn:TextField = samplebtn_doc.getChildAt(1) as TextField;
labelsamplebtn.text = "new button label";
//-----mous Over ----
var samplebtn_over:DisplayObjectContainer = samplebtn.overState as DisplayObjectContainer;
var labelsamplebtn_over:TextField = samplebtn_over.getChildAt(1) as TextField;
labelsamplebtn_over.text = "new button label";
//-----mous Down ----
var samplebtn_down:DisplayObjectContainer = samplebtn.downState as DisplayObjectContainer;
var labelsamplebtn_down:TextField = samplebtn_down.getChildAt(1) as TextField;
labelsamplebtn_down.text = "new button label";