Changing a Box container’s direction in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows you how you can change the direction of a Box container in Flex by setting the direction property to one of the constants in the BoxDirection class. The <mx:Box /> container is the superclass of the HBox container and VBox container. The subclasses (HBox and VBox) do not add any new [...]

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Adding filters to an Alert control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can add a GlowFilter to a Flex Alert control by setting the filters property on the Alert object reference returned by the static Alert.show() method.

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Displaying scroll tips in a HorizontalList control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 4, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following example shows how you can display scroll tips in a Flex HorizontalList control by setting the Boolean showScrollTips property.

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Setting alternating colors on a Flex HorizontalList control

By Peter deHaan On January 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can alternate item colors in a HorizontalList control in Flex by setting the alternatingItemColors style.

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Changing the background alpha of a HorizontalList control in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can change the background fill alpha on a HorizontalList control in Flex by setting the backgroundAlpha style.

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Using a timer to change the selected index of a ViewStack container in Flex

By Peter deHaan On January 4, 2008 · 2 Comments

The following example shows how you can use a timer to change the selected index in a Flex ViewStack container.

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