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Friday, January 25, 2008

In a previous example, “Removing folder icons from the Flex Tree control”, we saw how to remove the folder icons from a Tree control in Flex so only the disclosure (arrow) icons were visible. In the following example we look at a similar technique for removing the default leaf icons from the Tree control in Flex.

The short answer, set the defaultLeafIcon style to null using CSS, as shown in the following snippet:

<mx:Style>
    Tree {
        defaultLeafIcon: ClassReference(null);
    }
</mx:Style>

The long answer? Keep reading!

Full code after the jump.

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The following example shows how you can get the array of available cameras in ActionScript by using the static Camera.names property, which returns an array of camera names. You’ll also see how you can get a specific camera instance (in case users have multiple cameras installed, which may be the case if they have a laptop with a built in webcam as well as an external USB/Firewire webcam) by passing a parameter to the static Camera.getCamera() method.

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The following example shows how you can remove the folder icons from the Tree control in Flex so that only the disclosure (arrow) icons and leaf icons are visible.

The short answer, set the folderClosedIcon and folderOpenIcon styles to null using CSS, as shown in the following snippet:

<mx:Style>
    Tree {
        folderClosedIcon: ClassReference(null);
        folderOpenIcon: ClassReference(null);
    }
</mx:Style>

The long answer?
Full code after the jump.

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