Flex Multiline Button
Here is the code that will help us to create a multilined button component in flex.
package com.kw.components
{
import flash.display.DisplayObject;
import flash.text.TextLineMetrics;
import mx.controls.Button;
import mx.core.IFlexDisplayObject;
import mx.core.mx_internal;
use namespace mx_internal;
public class KWButton extends Button
{
public function KWButton()
{
super();
}
public var tagid:Number;
override protected function createChildren():void
{
if (!textField)
{
textField = new NoTruncationUITextField();
textField.styleName = this;
addChild(DisplayObject(textField));
}
super.createChildren();
textField.multiline = true;
textField.wordWrap = true;
textField.width = width;
}
override protected function measure():void
{
if (!isNaN(explicitWidth))
{
var tempIcon:IFlexDisplayObject = getCurrentIcon();
var w:Number = explicitWidth;
if (tempIcon)
w -= tempIcon.width + getStyle("horizontalGap") + getStyle("paddingLeft") + getStyle("paddingRight");
textField.width = w;
}
super.measure();
}
override public function measureText(s:String):TextLineMetrics
{
textField.text = s;
var lineMetrics:TextLineMetrics = textField.getLineMetrics(0);
lineMetrics.width = textField.textWidth + 4;
lineMetrics.height = textField.textHeight + 4;
return lineMetrics;
}
}
}
import mx.core.UITextField;
class NoTruncationUITextField extends UITextField
{
public function NoTruncationUITextField()
{
super();
}
override public function truncateToFit(s:String = null):Boolean
{
return false;
}
}