Pausing the animation in an indeterminate ProgressBar control

By On October 31, 2007 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can pause the indeterminate animation in a Flex ProgressBar control by setting the mode property to “polled” or “manual”. You can resume the animation by setting the mode back to “event”.

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Setting styles on individual Flex Accordion headers

By On October 30, 2007 · 19 Comments

Loyal reader, Madhu, asked the following question the other day:

Is it possible to color individual headers of the accordion?

Well, I played around with it briefly this evening and it seems that you can get individual accordion headings using the Accordion class’s getHeaderAt() method, then it is just a matter of saving that [...]

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Using for the FileReference class’s uploadCompleteData event to capture data from a server-side script

By On October 30, 2007 · 11 Comments

The previous example, “Using the URLVariables and FileReference classes to pass data from Flex to a server-side script”, showed how you could use the upload() method in the FileReference class along with the URLRequest and URLVariables classes to send data from your Flex application to a server-side script. Well, what happens if you want [...]

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Using the URLVariables and FileReference classes to pass data from Flex to a server-side script

By On October 30, 2007 · 14 Comments

We’ve already seen examples of using Flex to upload and download files (see “Uploading files in Flex using the FileReference class” and “Downloading files in Flex using the FileReference class”), but I’ve seen a lot of bugs/questions centering around the FileReference class lately so thought I’d try and do another example or two.

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Defining a custom label function on a Flex Tree control

By On October 29, 2007 · 13 Comments

The following example shows how you can specify a custom label function on a Tree control in Flex where the returned label is specific to the node name.

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Passing parameters to an HTTPService

By On October 29, 2007 · 23 Comments

The followig example shows how you can pass parameters to an HTTPService by passing an Object in the HTTPService’s send() method. The remote ColdFusion script is a simple “hello world” type script which accepts a single parameter, “name”, and returns a single parameter, “welcomeMessage”.

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Indenting Flex Accordion header labels

By On October 29, 2007 · 1 Comment

A recent comment asked how you can indent the Accordion header text as setting the paddingLeft style wasn’t working as expected for them. Well, as it turns out, you need to set the paddingLeft style directly on the AccordionHeader style (Flex 2 and 3) or create a new style with paddingLeft style specified and use [...]

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Resizing a Flex List control using the rowCount property

By On October 28, 2007 · 17 Comments

The following example shows how you can resize a List control in Flex using the rowCount property. By setting the rowCount property, the List control is automatically resized so that only the specified number of rows are displayed.

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Creating multi-line list rows with variable row heights

By On October 27, 2007 · 9 Comments

The following example shows how you can create multi-line rows with wrapping text and variable row heights with the Flex List control.

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Customizing the Accordion header in Flex 3

By On October 26, 2007 · 25 Comments

The following example shows how you can set some of the deprecated styles in the Accordion container (such as fillAlphas, fillColors, and selectedFillColors) by using the headerStyleName style.

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Embedding fonts from a Flash SWF file into a Flex application

By On October 25, 2007 · 20 Comments

The following examples show how you can embed a font from a Flash SWF into a Flex application using @font-face in a <mx:Style /> block, or using the [Embed] metadata.

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Setting a font’s anti-alias type, sharpness, thickness and grid fit type in Flex

By On October 24, 2007 · 8 Comments

The following example shows you how to change an embedded font’s appearance by setting the fontAntiAliasType style, fontSharpness style, fontThickness style, and fontGridFitType style.

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