Archive for October 12th, 2007

12
Oct

Globally setting modal styles in a Flex application

By peterd 14 Comments
Categories: PopUpManager and Alert Tags: , , , , , .

The topic of setting modal styles came up again today so I thought I’d re-share this tip (I previously covered controlling modal styles for the Alert control in an earlier post, “Changing a modal Alert control’s blur, transparency and transparency color”).

The following example shows how you can set the various modal styles (modalTransparencyBlur, modalTransparency, modalTransparencyColor, and modalTransparencyDuration) on the global selector so it propogates to both the Alert control and pop-ups created using the PopUpManager.

Full code after the jump.

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12
Oct

Styling the ColorPicker control in Flex 3

By peterd 0 Comments
Categories: ColorPicker Tags: , .

I saw this come up on a list recently, so thought I’d share the answer with my loyal readership. Styling the ColorPicker control changed somewhat between Flex 2.0.1 and Flex 3. Now, instead of applying certain styles directly to the ColorPicker itself, you create a new custom style and assign the swatchPanelStyleName style on the ColorPicker. But enough of my rambling, code is worth 1000 words.

Full code after the jump.

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12
Oct

Creating a custom creation complete effect on a Flex Alert control

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Categories: Alert Tags: , , , , , , , , .

The following example shows how to specify a effect which gets played when an Alert control is displayed by setting the Alert control’s creationCompleteEffect style. You can also see how to embed both the normal and bold font using CSS and @font-face.

Full code after the jump.

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