Setting a Flex container’s background disabled color and disabled overlay alpha

By Peter deHaan On September 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how to use the backgroundDisabledColor and disabledOverlayAlpha styles to add a nice overlay to a container when the container’s enabled property is set to false.

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Changing a form item’s background color when a child control has focus

By Peter deHaan On September 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I recently saw this on the Interwebs and thought I’d try to rebuild the effect in Flex. It is a pretty nice way to highlight the currently active form item.

The following example shows how you can use the focusIn and focusOut events to highlight the currently focused form item.

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Drawing complex rectangles in Flex using the GraphicsUtil class

By Peter deHaan On September 16, 2007 · 6 Comments

The following example shows how you can draw complex rectangles using the drawRoundRectComplex() method in the mx.utils.GraphicsUtil class.

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