Mx:Text autoSize?

Hi!
I have a mx:Text component with a specified width. On every
change of the text property in this Text component the height
should be updated to fit the whole text. How is that possible?
Anyone knows a work-around with other classes?
When I try following...
myText.text = "targettext, can grow multiline";
myText.height = myText.textHeight;
... the height property changes, however always too late (on
the next programmturn).
change="updateMyText()" in the .mxml also haven't worked.
Eventlistener on FlexEvent.DATA_CHANGE won't get called.
validateNow() haven't worked.
I'm very tired of this problem and hope, someone can help me.
mfg Tschouba

You're right, the height gets adjusted automatically in your example.
However, in my target programm it wasn't so, althougt it was the same text-component-code as in yours.
So again I tried around and finally I found my error: At the canvas tag (that was surrounding the Text component) autoLayout was set to false. Because of that the height of the text inside wasn't adjusted automatically.
autoLayout="true" --> all works fine
Thanks for your help, myIP!
Greets

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defaultTextFormat : flash.text:TextFormat\nSpecifies the format applied to newly inserted text, such as text entered by a user or text inserted with the replaceSelectedText() method.\nTextField\n      displayAsPassword : Boolean\nSpecifies whether the text field is a password text field.\nTextField\n      embedFonts : Boolean\nSpecifies whether to render by using embedded font outlines.\nTextField\n      gridFitType : String\nThe type of grid fitting used for this text field.\nTextField\n      htmlText : String\nContains the HTML representation of the text field contents.\nTextField\n      length : int\n[read-only] The number of characters in a text field.\nTextField\n      maxChars : int\nThe maximum number of characters that the text field can contain, as entered by a user.\nTextField\n      maxScrollH : int\n[read-only] The maximum value of scrollH.\nTextField\n      maxScrollV : int\n[read-only] The maximum value of scrollV.\nTextField\n      mouseWheelEnabled : Boolean\nA Boolean value that indicates whether Flash Player automatically scrolls multiline text fields when the user clicks a text field and rolls the mouse wheel.\nTextField\n      multiline : Boolean\nIndicates whether field is a multiline text field.\nTextField\n      numLines : int\n[read-only] Defines the number of text lines in a multiline text field.\nTextField\n      restrict : String\nIndicates the set of characters that a user can enter into the text field.\nTextField\n      scrollH : int\nThe current horizontal scrolling position.\nTextField\n      scrollV : int\nThe vertical position of text in a text field.\nTextField\n      selectable : Boolean\nA Boolean value that indicates whether the text field is selectable.\nTextField\n      selectionBeginIndex : int\n[read-only] The zero-based character index value of the first character in the current selection.\nTextField\n      selectionEndIndex : int\n[read-only] The zero-based character index value of the last character in the current selection.\nTextField\n      sharpness : Number\nThe sharpness of the glyph edges in this text field.\nTextField\n      styleSheet : StyleSheet\nAttaches a style sheet to the text field.\nTextField\n      text : String\nA string that is the current text in the text field.\nTextField\n      textColor : uint\nThe color of the text in a text field, in hexadecimal format.\nTextField\n      textHeight : Number\n[read-only] The height of the text in pixels.\nTextField\n      textInteractionMode : String\n[read-only] The interaction mode property, Default value is TextInteractionMode.NORMAL.\nTextField\n      textWidth : Number\n[read-only] The width of the text in pixels.\nTextField\n      thickness : Number\nThe thickness of the glyph edges in this text field.\nTextField\n      type : String\nThe type of the text field.\nTextField\n      useRichTextClipboard : Boolean\nSpecifies whether to copy and paste the text formatting along with the text.\nTextField\n      wordWrap : Boolean\nA Boolean value that indicates whether the text field has word wrap.\nTextField";
    myTextField.border=true;
    myTextField.width=myTextField.height=300;
    addChild(myTextField);
Thanks.

I have this bug on Galaxy Nexus Android 4.3, I don't have this bug on Galaxy S Android 2.3, the bug occurs with the new Google Keyboard 3.0
the app descriptor
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<application xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/4.0">

          
          <id>TextFieldFB</id>
          
          <filename>TextFieldFB</filename>
          
          <name>TextFieldFB</name>
          
          <versionNumber>0.0.1</versionNumber>
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          <initialWindow>
                    
                    
                    <content>[Cette valeur sera remplacée par Flash Builder dans le fichier app.xml de sortie]</content>
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
                    
                    
                    
                    
          <autoOrients>true</autoOrients>
        <fullScreen>false</fullScreen>
        <visible>true</visible>
    </initialWindow>
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
                    
                    
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                    
          
    
          
                    
                    
        
                    
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
          
    
    
              
        
        
        
    
          
<android>
        <manifestAdditions><![CDATA[
                              <manifest android:installLocation="auto">
                                  
                                  
                                  
                                  
                                  
                                  
                                  
                                  
                                  
                                  
                                  
                                  
                                  
                                  
                              </manifest>
                    ]]></manifestAdditions>
    </android>
    <iPhone>
        <InfoAdditions><![CDATA[
                              <key>UIDeviceFamily</key>
                              <array>
                                        <string>1</string>
                                        <string>2</string>
                              </array>
                    ]]></InfoAdditions>
        <requestedDisplayResolution>high</requestedDisplayResolution>
    </iPhone>
</application>

Linking a class to a dynamic text field to load XML data.

Hi,
I'm quite new to ActionScript and would be grateful for any help here.
I want to load text into a dynamic text field (called 'about_tab') using a class depending on the language selected (by clicking on a flag icon) by the user.
I managed to get this to work when the ActionScript was written directly in the timeline, but am having problems with doing the same thing via a class.
This is my class file:
package
import flash.display.SimpleButton;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.net.URLLoader;
import flash.events.Event;
public class ChangeLang extends SimpleButton
public function ChangeLang()
addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, switchLang);
trace("ChangeLang class working");
public function switchLang(event:MouseEvent):void
var lang = event.target.name;
var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("languages/"+lang+".xml");
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var substance:XML;
function xmlLoaded(event:Event):void
trace("function xmlLoaded is running");
substance = new XML(loader.data);
about_tab.text = substance.about_lbl;
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlLoaded);
loader.load(req);
Here's one of my XML files (the other is the same except "About" is written in German):
<substance>
<about_lbl>About</about_lbl>
</substance>
When I run it, it returns my trace statements that the class ChangeLang and the function xmlLoaded are running, but no text appears in the dynamic text field (I should/want to see the word 'About'). I get this error message:
1120: Access of undefined property about_tab
The problem, I'm guessing, is in the part in red in my code. I think I need to target the text field in the display list by creating a reference to it. If so, could someonw point out how I do this, or perhaps a tutorial that would help. I've tried adding the word stage (i.e.,stage.about_tab.text = substance.about_lbl; ) but it still doesn't connect. I guess there's something really simple I'm missing, so I apologize if this comes across as a stupid question
Thanks for any help.

Hello flashrocket!
I'm also new to AS3 and I've just started using external classes and I think I know what you should do to put your code to work.
Instead of using the text field you created inside your flash file, why don't you use the "TextField" class to create an instance of this object? It's the exact same thing as when you create and instantiate a new text field inside Flash.
First, import flash.text.*; (includes classes like TextField, TextFieldAutoSize, TextFormat, TextFormatAlign, etc)
Than you just have to create a var like
public var about_tab : TextField;
or
public var about_tab : TextField = new TextField();
then, to adjust the properties of this tab you use dotsyntax as if it where on your stage like:
about_tab.x = 50; about_tab.alpha = .5; etc...
you can even create a function to "config your textField"
          private function createAndConfigTextField() : void {
               about_tab = new TextField(); //you only need this line if you
          // only typed something like "public var about_tab:TextField;
          // if instead you used "public var about_tab:TextField = new TextField(); outside
          // this function, just skip this first line because you already have an instance of
          // text field named "about_tab"...
                        about_tab.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.CENTER;
               about_tab.background = true;
               about_tab.border = true;
               var aboutTextFormat : TextFormat = new TextFormat();
               format.font = "Arial";
               format.color = 0x000000;
               format.size = 11;
               format.bold = true;
               format.align = TextFormatAlign.CENTER;
               about_tab.defaultTextFormat = aboutTextFormat;
               addChild(about_tab);
This is just an example of what you can do... I hope you get it... let me know if you have any doubt...

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