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

by Peter deHaan on December 29, 2007

in ColorPicker

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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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/12/29/changing-the-swatch-border-size-for-a-colorpicker-control-in-flex-3/ -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="top"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <mx:Style>
        ColorPicker {
            swatchPanelStyleName: myCustomSwatchPanelStyleName;
        }

        .myCustomSwatchPanelStyleName {
            swatchBorderSize: 1;
        }
    </mx:Style>

    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            import mx.events.SliderEvent;

            private function slider_change(evt:SliderEvent):void {
                var cssObj:CSSStyleDeclaration = StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration(".myCustomSwatchPanelStyleName");
                cssObj.setStyle("swatchBorderSize", evt.value);

                colorPicker.open();
            }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>

    <mx:ApplicationControlBar dock="true">
        <mx:Form styleName="plain">
            <mx:FormItem label="swatchBorderSize:">
                <mx:HSlider id="slider"
                        minimum="0"
                        maximum="5"
                        value="1"
                        liveDragging="true"
                        snapInterval="1"
                        tickInterval="1"
                        change="slider_change(event);" />
            </mx:FormItem>
        </mx:Form>
    </mx:ApplicationControlBar>

    <mx:ColorPicker id="colorPicker" />

</mx:Application>

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