my name is Emilio and I'm a new member of this forum.
I tried the following piece of code to "test" the "maxwidth" property of a spark buttonbar control resizing his container.
If you try to execute this code, please try the following scenario:
- reduce browser window width to make it less of the sum of the button's width.
 - add another label to buttonbar clicking on the button on the top
 - enlarge browser window.
 
Why the "maxwidth" property doesn't make buttons to show correctly?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" 
                 xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" 
                 xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" 
                 creationComplete="bar_initializeHandler()" 
                 width="100%"
                 >
  <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
              import mx.collections.ArrayList;
              import mx.core.UIComponent;
              import mx.events.ResizeEvent;
              [Bindable]
              private var lista:ArrayList = new ArrayList();
              protected function bar_initializeHandler():void
              {
                    lista.addItem("stringa 1");
                    lista.addItem("stringa 2");
                    lista.addItem("stringa 3");
                    lista.addItem("stringa 4");
                    lista.addItem("stringa 5");
                    lista.addItem("stringa 6");
                    lista.addItem("stringa 7");
                    lista.addItem("stringa 8");
                    lista.addItem("stringa 9");
                    lista.addItem("stringa 10");
              }
              protected function vgroup1_resizeHandler(event:ResizeEvent):void
              {
                    var _width:Number = (event.target as UIComponent).width;
                    if(_width > 0)
                       bar.maxWidth = _width;
              }
              protected function button1_clickHandler(event:MouseEvent):void
              {
                    lista.addItem("parola");
              }
        ]]>
  </fx:Script>
  <s:VGroup id="layoutContainer" top="80" width="100%" paddingLeft="20" gap="0" left="0" right="0"  resize="vgroup1_resizeHandler(event)" >
        <s:ButtonBar id="bar"  dataProvider="{lista}" />
  </s:VGroup>
  <s:Button x="156" y="24" label="Button" click="button1_clickHandler(event)"/>
</s:Application>