Question

I’m trying to set the width of a Textfield() object based on it’s string content that I have set-
Is there a way to dynamically set this once the string has been sent to the object?

I have:

var t1:TextField = new TextField()
t1.x = stage.stageWidth / 2;
t1.y = stage.stageHeight / 2;           
t1.text = "some string that i would want to render";            
t1.textColor = 0x000000;
t1.cacheAsBitmap = true;
addChild(t1);

Thanks for any suggestions…
jml

Answer 1

TextField.autoSize?

edit:

You should read the documentation correctly, it’s a member variable that actually needs to be set. I’ll give you a quick example on how this works:

var tf:TextField = new TextField();
tf.text     = 'Some text.';
tf.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
tf.x = ( stage.stageWidth  - tf.width ) / 2;
tf.y = ( stage.stageHeight - tf.height ) / 2;

Alternatively you can also align the text field first and use TextFieldAutoSize.CENTER to keep it aligned in the center.