how to get a Flex text control to word wrap

Question

I\'m creating an Adobe Flex application and I have a Text control (mx:Text), which is supposedly used when you need multiline noneditable text (as opposed to a Label, which

Answer 1

You could try adding an event handler to the parent node for Event.RESIZE, and call the Text object's validateNow() method. (Perhaps preceded by an invalidateSize() call.) Why doesn't this happen automatically I cannot tell.