Horizontallist variable width - apache-flex

Question

i want to populate a horizontalList component from a xml file, the width value will be inside the xml file as well with all the data.
actually i have this code:
<mx:Model id="epg" source="epg.xml" />
<mx:Component id="customRend">
<mx:Label text="{data.description}" width="{data.width}"/>
</mx:Component>
<mx:HBox x="82" y="104" width="1203" height="113" verticalAlign="middle">
<mx:HorizontalList width="100%" dataProvider="{epg.channel.program}"
itemRenderer="{customRend}" horizontalScrollPolicy="off">
</mx:HorizontalList>
</mx:HBox>
but it sets same width for all elements in the list.
Do you know how to do this?
Thanks a lot.
Br

Answer 1

Two ways to do this:
Set label.width = data.width on creationComplete
Wrap Label in Canvas
The creationComplete way (probably because an itemRenderer should be a Container?):
<mx:HorizontalList width="100%" dataProvider="{epg.channel.program}" horizontalScrollPolicy="off">
<mx:itemRenderer>
<mx:Component id="customRend">
<mx:Label text="{data.description}" creationComplete="this.width = data.width"/>
</mx:Component>
</mx:itemRenderer>
</mx:HorizontalList>
... or wrapped in Canvas:
<mx:HorizontalList width="100%" dataProvider="{epg.channel.program}" horizontalScrollPolicy="off">
<mx:itemRenderer>
<mx:Component id="customRend">
<mx:Canvas horizontalScrollPolicy="off">
<mx:Label text="{data.description}" width="{data.width}"/>
</mx:Canvas>
</mx:Component>
</mx:itemRenderer>
</mx:HorizontalList>
Hope that helps,
Lance