I saw this question come up on a list today and thought this was pretty handy. Plus, I think it is the first time I’ve had a chance to play with the ContextMenu and ContextMenuItem classes in Flex in quite a while.
The following example pops up a custom context menu when the user right-clicks on an item in an data grid. After selecting the custom item (”View item…”) from the context menu an Alert control is displayed showing the selected item’s properties.
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The following example formats a column in a Flex DataGrid and uses a custom item renderer to color the text red in a cell if a price is below $0. If the item is greater than $0, the test is displayed in black. The price column is also formatted using a custom label function, which uses a CurrencyFormatter, and finally, the data grid column uses a custom sort function to properly sort numeric columns.
Full code after the jump.
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Pretty basic stuff, but if you’ve never used a toggle button in Flex or Flash, you may find this useful. The following example creates two Button controls. The first button sets the toggle property to true and determines whether the button is currently selected by watching the button’s selected property. The second button simply sets the emphasized property to true, which gives the button a nice visible border, making it stand out a little more than the other buttons. This is great for highlighting a default button in a form.
Full code after the jump.
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This is a simpler version of the “Creating a vertical LinkBar in Flex” entry except it uses the Flex ButtonBar control instead of a LinkBar control. Also, instead of embedding the PNG assets in an <mx:Script /> block, I embedded the images inline using @Embed.
Full code after the jump.
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