Find position of object in VBox

Question

Hi All,
I have a outter VBOX that gets populated dynamically with
VBOX that contain text and buttons.
The architecture of the containers is below.
<VBOX>
<VBOX>
<text>Item One<text/>
<Button/>
</VBOX>
<VBOX>
<text>Item Two<text/>
<Button/>
</VBOX>
</VBOX>
The objects that are in the outer VBOX box are created
dynamically and do not have explicit heights.
QUESTION: How can I get the height of each of the items in
the outter VBOX?
I have been doing the following:
//Get the children of the outter VBOX
var childList : Array = al.listBox.getChildren();
var total : int= 0;
for(var i1:int =0;i1<childList.length;i1++) {
var child :Object = childList[i1];
var childRect : Rectangle = child.getBounds(container
holding the item);
total = total + childRect.height;
The getbounds call always returns 0 as well as the x and y
coord return 1.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi,
check this..
DATA: patt       TYPE string VALUE `now`,
      text       TYPE string,
      result_tab TYPE match_result_tab.
FIELD-SYMBOLS <match> LIKE LINE OF result_tab.
FIND ALL OCCURRENCES OF patt IN
     `Everybody knows this is nowhere`
     RESULTS result_tab.
LOOP AT result_tab ASSIGNING <match>.
  WRITE: / <match>-offset, <match>-length.
ENDLOOP.
here your pattern should be space . i.e. ' '.
Arunima