Specifying the Character Width or Height of a font

Question

I have a Flex SDK 4.5.x and ActionScript 3.0 application that I am working on that contains Label, TextField and RichEditableText fields.  In our application, I need to be able to specify the font and point size that will be used to display each of the above.  This part is easy and not an issue.  The problem we are experiencing is a secondary requirement that I must be able to change the average width or height of a character from what the font / point size default is.  For instance, if I have a Text display object configured with Arial TTF and a point size of 16, the default average character height and width are 0.222 and 0.121 inches respectively.  I need to be able to change the font height and/or width of the default average character resulting in a Text display object that is correctly stretched in the respective height / width direction.

Answer 1

Not that I know of. Searching for "prefWidth" in the CSS documentation yields no results. JavaFX layout is typically not managed by CSS, but by FXML and/or Java. You can set the prefHeight and prefWidth as attributes in the FXML file:
<ListView fx:id="..." prefWidth="130" prefHeight="100" ... />or in Java:
ListView<String> listView = new ListView<String>();
listView.setPrefWidth(130);
listView.setPrefHeight(100);