bman979 wrote:
> First off I am fairly new to flash. My problem is getting the pixel width of a
> autosized textbox which is part of a button. This will be part of a navigation
> system which first reads the data from a xml file and then creates the
> navigation bar. I can get the length of the charaters in the textbox with no
> problem, but i cant seem to get the width of the textbox.
>
> The top level buttons are set up using the var "title" to populate their text
> from the xml.
>
> Below is a sniplet of the code I am using:
>
> for(i=0;i<no_sections;i++){
> var lenStr = 0;
> var sub_yval = 25;
>
> duplicateMovieClip("navbar.clip","clip"+i,i+lenStr);
> eval("navbar.clip"+i).title = root_element.childNodes.attributes.title;
>
> //This portion gets the characters in the textbox, but is really not even
> needed.
> var ThisStr =
> root_element.childNodes.attributes.title;
> lenBox = Length(ThisStr);
>
> eval("navbar.clip"+i)._x = xval;
> eval("navbar.clip"+i).title.autoSize = "center";
>
> //I should be able to get the width
> of the textbox now that it has been populated and autosized.
> //var lenStr = eval("navbar.clip"+i).nbutton.textnbutton._width;
>
> eval("navbar.clip"+i).nbutton._width = lenStr;
>
> Any assistence would be much appreciated. I have searched all over trying to
> find a solution to this problem. Thanks.