table in flash

[stakadush]

hey
i'm getting a list of events from the database (no prblem there), and i want to print it the following way:

Title    Description    Date    Flyer

here's my code:

sTextA = "loading...";
newTextA = "";
for (i = 0; i < numEvents; i++) {
	newTextA += this[&quot;eventTitle&quot;+i] + &quot;\t&quot;;
	newTextA += this[&quot;eventDesc&quot;+i] + &quot;\t&quot;;
	newTextA += this[&quot;eventDate&quot;+i] + &quot;\t&quot;;
	if (this[&quot;eventFlyer&quot;+i] != &quot;&quot;) {
		//if event has a flyer,print a link to it
		newTextA += &quot;<a href=\&quot;&quot;+ imagesDir +&quot;/&quot;+ this[&quot;eventFlyer&quot;+i] +&quot;\&quot;>flyer</a>&quot;;
	}
	newTextA += &quot;<br>&quot;;
}
sTextA = newTextA;

i populate newTextA and when that's ready i put it inside sTextA which is a dynamic text field.

everything works great but i don't want to use tabs because when a title is longer then the others the text isn't aligned correctly (like if i used a table in HTML for each column).
to make it clearer,if i could use html tables in flash the above code would've looked more or less like this:

newTextA = &quot;<table border=0 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2>&quot;;
for (i = 0; i < numEvents; i++) {
	newTextA += &quot;<tr>&quot;;
	newTextA += &quot;<td>&quot;+ this[&quot;eventTitle&quot;+i] + &quot;</td>&quot;;
	newTextA += &quot;<td>&quot;+ this[&quot;eventDesc&quot;+i] + &quot;</td>&quot;;
	newTextA += &quot;<td>&quot;+ this[&quot;eventDate&quot;+i] + &quot;</td>&quot;;
	newTextA += &quot;<td>&quot;;
	if (this[&quot;eventFlyer&quot;+i] != &quot;&quot;) {
		//if event has a flyer,print a link to it
		newTextA += &quot;<a href=\&quot;&quot;+ imagesDir +&quot;/&quot;+ this[&quot;eventFlyer&quot;+i] +&quot;\&quot;>flyer</a>&quot;;
	} else {
		//no flyer
		newTextA += &quot;&nbsp;&quot;;
	}
	newTextA +=  &quot;</td></tr>&quot;;
}
newTextA += &quot;</table>&quot;;

this way i know the spacing will always be the same between the columns and i can allow for line breaks in the description.

so,the big question,how can i do this in flash?
thanks (-:

 

[oldnewbie]

How about using 4 different fixed sized textfields? That way all elements would be left aligned, no matter how long any of the elements were!

Just a thought!

Regards,

ldnewbie

 

[stakadush]

can i create as many textfields, dynamically, as i want (cause i don't know how many results php is returning)?
cheers (-: