Calculating Text Width In ActionScript And Flex

Question

I\'m trying to calculate how WIDE to make my button, based on the text that it will contain, and when I try to google for how to calcuate something as simplistic as the WIDT

Answer 1

Here's how you do it in Spark:

I've modified - simplified - his example a bit here:

var textMetrics:TextLineMetrics = label.measureText( label.text );  
var textWidth:int = textMetrics.width;