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Reducing the vertical space around a separator in a Flex PopUpButton control’s pop up menu by enabling variable row heights

By Peter deHaan On January 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can reduce the amount of whitespace around a PopUpButton control’s pop up menu by setting the variableRowHeight property on the menu in Flex.

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Setting the corner radius on a Flex PopUpButton control

By Peter deHaan On January 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the corner radius on the PopUpButton control in Flex by setting the cornerRadius style.

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Setting the vertical gap between a Flex PopUpButton control and its pop up menu

By Peter deHaan On January 31, 2008 · 3 Comments

The following example shows how you can set the gap between a PopUpButton control and its pop up menu in Flex by setting the popUpGap style.

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Determining whether a font has specific glyphs in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can check whether an embedded font has a specific glyph by passing a string to the hasGlyph() method which returns a Boolean value indicating whether the font has the specified character(s).

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Copying text to the operating system clipboard in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 30, 2008 · 23 Comments

The following example shows you how you can copy text from a Flex application to the operating system’s clipboard by using the static System.setClipboard() method.

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Creating semi-transparent PopUpButton pop up menus in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows you how you can create semi-transparent pop up menus using the Flex PopUpButton control by setting the backgroundAlpha, backgroundColor, and borderStyle styles on the pop up menu.

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Changing the width of the arrow button in a Flex PopUpButton control

By Peter deHaan On January 30, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows you how you can customize the width of the PopUpButton control’s arrow button in Flex by setting the arrowButtonWidth style.

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Adding checkboxes, radiobuttons, and sub-menus to a Flex PopUpButton control’s pop up menu

By Peter deHaan On January 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

In a previous example, “Adding a horizontal separator to a Flex PopUpButton control’s pop up menu”, we saw how you can add horizontal separators to a PopUpButton control’s pop up menu by setting the type attribute to “separator”. So, “what other special types are there?”, you may be asking, as it turns out you [...]

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Adding a horizontal separator to a Flex PopUpButton control’s pop up menu

By Peter deHaan On January 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can add a horizontal separator to a PopUpButton control’s pop up menu in Flex by setting the type attribute to “separator” in the menu’s data provider.

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Setting the width on a Flex PopUpButton control’s pop up menu

By Peter deHaan On January 28, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can set the width of a PopUpButton control’s pop up menu in Flex by setting the width property on the Menu control instance.

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Creating a tool tip on a Flex TextInput control with password masked text

By Peter deHaan On January 28, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows you how you can use a tool tip on a Flex TextInput control with its displayAsPassword property set to true. By mousing over the credit card number field in the form below, you can see your credit card number in a readable tool tip.

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Using a CheckBox control as a list item renderer in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 27, 2008 · 28 Comments

The following example will show you how you can use a CheckBox control as a custom item renderer in a List control in Flex.
I haven’t done a lot of testing yet, so if you have any tips/suggestions/improvements, please, share them in the comments.

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