Toggling a DataGrid control’s horizontal grid lines and vertical grid lines

By Peter deHaan On July 23, 2007 · 3 Comments

OK, this is a pretty neat trick. Flex makes it pretty easy to customize the look and feel of the DataGrid. For example, the following code lets you toggle the data grid’s horizontalGridLines and verticalGridLines styles on or off, change the alternating row background colors so each row is a plain white, and sets the [...]

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Setting the amount of time that a tool tip is visible using the ToolTipManager class

By Peter deHaan On July 23, 2007 · 2 Comments

Ever wonder how to control the amount of time that a tool tip stays visible before disappearing? Well, wonder no more! You can control the length of time that a tool tip remains visible from the default 10 seconds to whatever you want by setting the ToolTipManager.hideDelay property. Simply set the value to however many [...]

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Creating multi-line data grid rows with variable row heights

By Peter deHaan On July 23, 2007 · 20 Comments

One of my favorite Flex components is the the trusty DataGrid. It seems whenever I build some sort of application or sample, I need a DataGrid to show all sorts of debug data or what have you. Here is a simple little example of a DataGrid with multi-line content and a variable row height.

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Formatting multiple data tips in a Slider

By Peter deHaan On July 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Some imaginary blog reader asks, “How do i change a Slider’s dataTip based on which Slider thumb is being dragged?”
I crafted up this sneaky code to listen for the thumbPress and thumbRelease events to log which slider is being… slid?

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Getting started with the VideoDisplay control

By Peter deHaan On July 23, 2007 · 1 Comment

I was experimenting with the VideoDisplay control the other day and built this simple little example to help me understand the order of events when loading a Flash Video (FLV).

 

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Detecting a connection error when loading an FLV with the VideoDisplay control

By Peter deHaan On July 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The other day I was playing with the VideoDisplay control in Flex and was curious why my simple test cases were not working. Well, as it turns out, my remote server wasn’t available so the Flash Video (FLV) couldn’t be loaded. So I quickly typed up the following code to listen for the stateChange event [...]

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Listening for a Flash Video’s cue points using the VideoDisplay control

By Peter deHaan On July 23, 2007 · 6 Comments

Here’s a simple example that listens for the cuePoint event on a VideoDisplay control and updates a DataGrid control whenever the cue point is encountered.

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