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

Following up my comment on quoo's answer, here's the code for same purpose, but just grabbing the width out of a TextField, using TextLineMetrics as well:

    public function mtxtWidth(container:TextField):int {
       var lineMetrics:TextLineMetrics = container.getLineMetrics(0);
       return lineMetrics.width;      
    }