Comments on: Creating a multiline CheckBox component in Flash using ActionScript 3.0

By: Craig Belcherr

Craig Belcherr — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:55:02 +0000

After searching Google and doing some of my own investigation into Flex, I found the following solution:

package packageName
{
import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;
import mx.controls.CheckBox;

public class MultilineCheckBox extends CheckBox
{
public function MultilineCheckBox()
{
super();
}

override protected function createChildren():void
{
super.createChildren();

textField.wordWrap = true;
textField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
}
}
}

Let me know what you think :)

–Craig

By: Craig Belcherr

Craig Belcherr — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:17:40 +0000

I am also curious about how to change the relative position of the actual checkbox and its label. I think it would look much better if they were aligned along the top. I messed around with CSS styles, but I have not been able to find anything that affects the control in this way.

–Craig

By: andjules

andjules — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:50:24 +0000

Interesting side effect:
the actual check-box (the box element itself, not including the label) is vertically centered to the height of the checkbox’s textfield.
I can’t find any documentation (or undocumented stuff on the net) about how to reference the actual check-box (so I can control its relative position).

Any thoughts?

By: Peter deHaan

Peter deHaan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:57:45 +0000

Nice,

Flash enhancement requests/bug reports can be filed using the “Feature Request/Bug Report Form” at http://www.adobe.com/go/wish (select “Flash” from the Product name drop down menu)
Flex enhancement requests/bug reports can be filed using the public bug base at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex/

Peter

By: Nice

Nice — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:57:36 +0000

Need to submit an enhancement request to Adobe to have this ability added to Flash/Flex..