Ok, I've tried this several ways and can't seem to find a workaround for what I want. Here's the scenario...

I have a movieclip in the library that contains a RadioButton component and a TextField; it serves as a container. I pull the clip out of the library at runtime and populate the text into the TextField. I don't know what height the TextField within the movieclip will be but I want the movieclip's height to be the same as the height of the text in the TextField so I can position it appropriately. However, the container movieclip always wants to be some other default height (I think 100px) and when I try to change it thru code after the text is set, it scales the whole thing (TextField & RadioButton) and looks like garbage! I need to set the height dynamically without the stupid scaling.

You would think the movieclip would resize based on it's content but it doesn't! bogus! please help me find a workaround...again, I've tried pulling it from the Library, I've tried doing everything thru code, but neither changes the height vs. scaling issue.