Changing a CheckBox control’s icon

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can customize the check icon in a CheckBox control and use embedded images instead.

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Docking an ApplicationControlBar container

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2007 · 4 Comments

The following example shows how you can dock an ApplicationControlBar container by setting its dock property to true. Yes, this is perhaps the shortest and most boring example ever. Enjoy!

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Enabling and disabling specific tabs in a TabBar control

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2007 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can enable and disable individual tabs in a TabBar control by setting the enabled property in the ViewStack container’s child containers.

 

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Using the CurrencyValidator and CurrencyFormatter classes to validate and format numbers

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2007 · 1 Comment

The following entry shows how users can store an unformatted number and display it back to users when the TextInput control is being edited. When the text input control loses focus, the data is validated and formatted (if the data was valid) or focus is returned to the control if validation failed.

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Using the ZipCodeValidator class to validate US or Canadian zip codes

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2007 · 5 Comments

The following example shows how you can use the ZipCodeValidator to validate either US or Canadian zip codes (or should that be “postal codes” for our friends from the Great White North?). It turns out that making the ZipCodeValidator “Canadian friendly” is as simple as setting the domain property, and passing a constant value from [...]

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Changing a Tile container’s child layout direction

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example lets you change a Tile container’s direction property to control whether the container’s children are arranged from left to right, or top to bottom. You can also use two slider controls to change the value of the tileWidth and tileHeight properties.

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Changing a Tile container’s horizontal and vertical gaps

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example uses two slider controls to adjust the values of the horizontalGap and verticalGap styles.

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Changing a Tile container’s horizontal and vertical alignment

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can horizontal and vertical alignment in a Tile container using the horizontalAlign and verticalAlign styles respectively.

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Changing a CheckBox control’s label placement

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2007 · 3 Comments

While probably not very useful to most, this is a quick post on changing the CheckBox control’s labelPlacement property to control where the text appears in relation to the check box.

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Changing a CheckBox control’s icon color and border color

By Peter deHaan On August 25, 2007 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can change the CheckBox control’s checkmark icon color and the border color by setting the control’s iconColor and borderColor styles repectively.

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