Flash, ActionScript, Flash SEO

Today I run into this strange problem while trying to scale a Sprite containing dynamic TextField. As you can see in the flash demo below, when you scale the Sprite the TextField retains its position in the Sprite container.

This is the code that I use for scaling:

var testTxt:TextField = btn.getChildByName("labelTxt") as
TextField;
testTxt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
testTxt.text = "SCALE SPRITE+TXT";
testTxt.x = 4;
 
var bg:Sprite = btn.getChildByName("bg") as Sprite;
bg.width = testTxt.width + 8;
 
var orig:Sprite = new Test();
var txt:TextField = orig.getChildByName("labelTxt") as TextField;
txt.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
txt.text = "SCALE SPRITE+TXT";
txt.x = 4;
var bg2:Sprite = orig.getChildByName("bg") as Sprite;
bg2.width = txt.width + 8;
orig.x = btn.x;
orig.y = btn.y + btn.height + 4;
 
addChild(orig);
 
btn.scaleX = 100/btn.width;

And THE SOLUTION is to use GridFitType.NONE for the gridFitType property of the TextField. The default value of the gridFitType property is GridFitType.PIXEL, which forces the text field to position according to the grid.

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