Flex Container automatic layout

Question

Hello all.

I am working in Flex.
How can I display components in a Container so that they are arranged according to width of container.

I have dynamic no. of labels and I want them to get arranged in a manner that after a particular width of that container, child label components should automatically start from next line.

If I use HBox all labels are displayed horizontally and in VBox they come vertically, with scroll bars in each case.
I can not use Canvas also as I dont know exact positions of labels as they are dynamically generated.

TileList is not serving my purpose as labels may be of different width.

Can Repeater along with some container help in any way?

How can I get this type of layout.
Please help me out.
Thank you in advance. :)

Answer 1

I think this is what you mean: http://www.munkiihouse.com/?p=60. It's a custom component which handles it.

Answer 2

Please use TileList

http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/TileList.html

http://blog.flexexamples.com/2008/08/10/alternating-tile-background-colors-for-items-in-a-tilelist-control-in-flex/

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Adrian