Using a custom context menu with the Flex DataGrid control

By Peter deHaan On August 20, 2007 · 57 Comments

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 [...]

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Formatting a Flex DataGrid control using a custom item renderer

By Peter deHaan On August 20, 2007 · 48 Comments

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 [...]

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Creating toggle and emphasized Button controls in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 20, 2007 · 3 Comments

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 [...]

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Creating custom dialog boxes using the PopUpManager and TitleWindow classes

By Peter deHaan On August 20, 2007 · 21 Comments

Here are a couple examples of using the TitleWindow container with the PopUpManager class to create custom pop-up windows and dialog boxes.

Full code after the jump.

 

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Creating a vertical ButtonBar in Flex

By Peter deHaan On August 20, 2007 · Leave a Comment

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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