Using overlapping slider thumbs in the Flex Slider controls

I was playing around with the HSlider component tonight and was checking out the allowThumbOverlap property. The following example creates a horizontal slider with 2 slider thumbs and lets you toggle the allowThumbOverlap property with the showTrackHighlight property set to true.

Full code after the jump.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/22/using-overlapping-slider-thumbs-in-the-flex-slider-controls/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            private function list_labelFunc(item:Object):String {
                return Number(item).toFixed(2);
            }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>

    <mx:Number id="slider_thumbCount">2</mx:Number>

    <mx:ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
        <mx:CheckBox id="checkBox"
                label="allowThumbOverlap"
                selected="true" />
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>

    <mx:HSlider id="slider"
            allowThumbOverlap="{checkBox.selected}"
            dataTipPrecision="2"
            showTrackHighlight="true"
            snapInterval="0.25"
            thumbCount="{slider_thumbCount}"
            tickInterval="1" />

    <mx:List id="list"
            dataProvider="{slider.values}"
            labelFunction="list_labelFunc"
            rowCount="{slider_thumbCount}"
            width="{slider.width}" />

</mx:Application>

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Tagged as: allowThumbOverlap, showTrackHighlight, thumbCount