Archive for December, 2007

31
Dec

Toggling the text field in a Flex ColorPicker control

The following example shows how you can toggle the nested text field in a ColorPicker control’s swatch panel in Flex by setting the showTextField property.

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31
Dec

Creating a custom context menu on a RichTextEditor control in Flex

The following example shows how you can add custom context menu commands to a RichTextEditor control in Flex by setting the contextMenu property.

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31
Dec

Changing the close button skin on a Flex TitleWindow container

The following example shows how you can change the appearance of the close button in a TitleWindow container in Flex by setting the closeButtonSkin style (or the closeButtonUpSkin, closeButtonOverSkin, closeButtonDownSkin, closeButtonDisabledSkin styles individually).

Full code after the jump.

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31
Dec

Toggling the close button in a Flex TitleWindow container

The following example shows you how you can toggle the close button in a TitleWindow container in Flex by setting the showCloseButton property.

Full code after the jump.

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31
Dec

Changing the RichTextEditor control’s style name in Flex

The following example shows how you can change the style name for the Flex RichTextEditor control to the predefined “.opaquePanel” style, by setting the styleName property on the RichTextEditor.

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31
Dec

Toggling the control bar in a Flex RichTextEditor control (redux)

It seems that I’ve covered this before, “Toggling the control bar in a Flex RichTextEditor control”, but here is another useful way to toggle the control bar in a Flex RichTextEditor control. The following example shows how you can toggle the RichTextEditor control’s control bar by moving the mouse cursor over or out of the RichTextEditor instance.

Full code after the jump.

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30
Dec

Changing the ColorPicker control’s nested text field styles in Flex 3

The following example shows how you can customize the appearance of the ColorPicker control’s nested text field in Flex 3 by setting the textFieldStyleName style.

Full code after the jump.

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29
Dec

Changing the swatch grid background color for a ColorPicker control in Flex 3

The following example shows how you can set the swatch grid background color on a Flex 3 ColorPicker control by setting the swatchGridBackgroundColor style. You can also see how you can set the horizontalGap, and verticalGap styles using CSS.

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29
Dec

Changing the swatch highlight size for a ColorPicker control in Flex 3

The following example shows how you can set the swatch highlight size on a Flex 3 ColorPicker control by setting the swatchHighlightSize style. You can also see how you can set the swatchBorderColor, swatchBorderSize, and swatchHighlightColor styles using CSS.

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29
Dec

Changing the swatch border size for a ColorPicker control in Flex 3

The following example shows how you can set the swatch border size on a Flex 3 ColorPicker control by setting the swatchBorderSize style.

Full code after the jump.

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29
Dec

Styling a Flex 3 ComboBox control’s vertical scroll bars

The following example shows how you can style the vertical scroll bar on a ComboBox control in Flex 3 by setting the dropdownStyleName style and verticalScrollBarStyleName style.

Full code after the jump.

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28
Dec

Changing the default calendar icon in a Flex DateField control

The following example shows how you can change the default calendar icon that appears in a DateField control in Flex by setting the skin style.

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27
Dec

Changing the Flex ColorPicker control’s swatch panel background color

The following example shows you how you can change the ColorPicker control’s background color in Flex 3 by setting the backgroundColor style using CSS and ActionScript.

Full code after the jump.

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26
Dec

Setting font weight on a Flex DateChooser control

The following example shows how you can set the fontWeight style on a Flex DateChooser control to change whether each day in the calendar appears as normal or bold font.

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25
Dec

Changing the header colors of a Flex DateChooser control

The following example shows how you can customize the background color of the DateChooser control’s header in Flex by setting the headerColors style.

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