Creating a Flex DataGrid control with a transparent background

By Peter deHaan On August 31, 2007 · 6 Comments

The following example demonstrates how you can create a Flex DataGrid control with a transparent background by setting the backgroundAlpha style to 0.0, and the alternatingItemColors style to an empty array.

Full code after the jump.

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Toggling sortable columns in a Flex DataGrid control

By Peter deHaan On August 31, 2007 · 9 Comments

The following example demonstrates how you can enable/disable sortable columns in a Flex DataGrid control using the DataGrid class’s sortableColumns property, as well as toggling specific column’s sortability using the DataGridColumn class’s sortable property.

Full code after the jump.

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Setting custom status messages in a Flex Panel container

By Peter deHaan On August 31, 2007 · 8 Comments

The following example shows how you can set custom status messages in a Flex Panel container by setting the aptly named status property.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Toggling draggable columns in a Flex DataGrid control

By Peter deHaan On August 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example demonstrates how you can enable/disable draggable columns in a Flex DataGrid control using the DataGrid class’s draggableColumns property, as well as toggling specific column’s dragability using the DataGridColumn class’s draggable property.

Full code after the jump.

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Toggling resizable columns in a Flex DataGrid control

By Peter deHaan On August 30, 2007 · 2 Comments

The following example demonstrates how you can enable/disable resizable columns in a Flex DataGrid control using the DataGrid class’s resizableColumns property, as well as toggling specific column’s resizability using the DataGridColumn class’s resizable property.

Full code after the jump.

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Creating drop shadows on the Flex TextInput control

By Peter deHaan On August 30, 2007 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can easily create a drop shadow effect on a TextInput control using the dropShadowEnabled style (instead of creating a DropShadowFilter), as well as control the drop shadow effect’s color, direction, and distance (using the dropShadowColor, shadowDirection, and shadowDistance styles, respectively).

Full code after the jump.

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Launching new browser windows from Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 29, 2007 · 39 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the navigateToURL() method in the flash.utils package to open new browser windows, or replace the content in the current window.

Full code after the jump.

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Toggling a Flex DataGrid control’s header row

By Peter deHaan On August 28, 2007 · 4 Comments

The following example shows you how to toggle the header row in a Flex DataGrid control using the showHeaders property.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Detecting the mouse scroll wheel in a Flex application

By Peter deHaan On August 28, 2007 · 18 Comments

The following example demonstrates a very simple Flex application which listens for the mouseWheel event (represented here by the MouseEvent.MOUSE_WHEEL constant) and updates a Label control on the display list.

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Styling the Flex DataGrid control using a custom separator skins

By Peter deHaan On August 28, 2007 · 4 Comments

The following example demonstrates how you can customize the Flex 3 DataGrid control by specifying a custom skin for the horizontalSeparatorSkin and verticalSeparatorSkin styles.

These styles were added in Flex 3 and will not work with Flex 2.0.1.

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Styling a Flex Button control using embedded fonts

By Peter deHaan On August 28, 2007 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of a Flex Button control by using an embedded font and removing the Button’s default skin.

 

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Charting in Flex Builder 3 (public beta 1 edition)

By Peter deHaan On August 27, 2007 · 23 Comments

I’ve seen this come up on a few lists, and it is something I’ve struggled with, so I thought I’d do a brief post on it. Curious Flexers ask “How do I create charts in Flex 3?” (or “How do I use the AdvancedDataGrid in Flex 3?” also comes up).

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